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The open society, it is asserted, is actually impossible. Its possibility is not proved at all by what is called the progress toward the open society. For that progress is largely fictitious or merely verbal. Certain basic facts of human nature, which have been honestly recognized by earlier generations, are at the present time verbally denied, superficially covered over by fictions legals and others.

The German nihilists’ moral protest against modernity proceeds from the conviction that the internationalism inherent in modern civilization, or, more precisely, that the establishment of a perfectly open society which is as it were the goal of modern civilization, and therefore all aspirations directed toward that goal, are irreconcilable with the basic demands of moral life.

Nietzsche asserted that the atheist assumption is not only reconcilable with, but indispensable for, anti-democratic, anti-socialist and anti-pacifist policy; according to him, even the communist creed is only a secularized form of theism, of the belief in providence.
— Leo Strauss​, German Nihilism.

Ce livre est composé de trois essais par Leo Strauss:
1.Sur le nihilisme allemand (1941)
2. La crise de notre temps (1962)
3. La crise de la philosophie politique (1962).