Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason & revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative & textual treatment of the Bible. Strauss compares Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise & the Epistles, showing their relation to critical controversy on religion from Epicurus & Lucretius thru Uriel da Costa & Isaac Peyrere to Th Hobbes. Strauss' autobiographical Preface, traces his dilemmas as a young liberal intellectual in Germany during the Weimar Republic, as a scholar in exile & as a leader of American philosophical thought.
"[For] those interested in Strauss the political philosopher, & 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 & reason."--Kirkus Reviews
Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Rbt 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 & the Man, What is Political Philosophy? & Liberalism Ancient & Modern.