The circle of young thinkers around Bultmann and Heidegger all aimed for the same thing that Heidegger modeled, though imperfectly: a retrieval of the original voice of philosophy before it was distorted (in a neutral, acoustic sense of the term) by revelation. For Gadamer, also part of this circle, this became a question of method. For Strauss, it was always a question of philosophy and politics or, as Velkley points out, a question of understanding the "theological-political" problem.

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