Spinoza's Critique of Religion - Softcover

Strauss, Leo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080520704X ISBN 13: 9780805207040

Publisher: Schocken Books, 1982

Synopsis

Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise and the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from Epicurus and Lucretius through Uriel da Costa and Isaac Peyrere to Thomas Hobbes. Strauss's autobiographical Preface, traces his dilemmas as a young liberal intellectual in Germany during the Weimar Republic, as a scholar in exile, and as a leader of American philosophical thought". [For] those interested in Strauss the political philosopher, and also those who doubt whether we have achieved the 'final solution' in respect to either the character of political science or the problem of the relation of religion to the state". -Journal of Politics "A substantial contribution to the thinking of all those interested in the ageless problems of faith, revelation, and reason". -Kirkus ReviewsLeo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of Chicago. His contributions to political science include The Political Philosophy of Hobbes, The City and the Man, What is Political Philosophy, and Liberalism Ancient and Modern.

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About the Author:

Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was one of the preeminent political philosophers of the twentieth century. Born and educated in Germany, he emigrated to the United Sates in 1937. From 1949 to 1968 he was a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He was the author of numerous books, many of which are published by the University of Chicago Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Schocken Books
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 080520704X
• ISBN 13: 9780805207040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 351