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Spinoza's Critique of Religion / Leo Strauss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Strauss, Leo, Author.
- Standardized Title:
- Religionskritik Spinozas als Grundlage seiner Bibelwissenschaft. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Tractatus theologico-politicus.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Religion--Controversial literature.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Edition:
- University of Chicago Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1996]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 Reviews Leo 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the English Translation
- Part One. The Tradition of the Critique of Religion
- Part Two. Spinoza's Critique of Religion
- Notes
- Appendix
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780226225500
- 022622550X
- OCLC:
- 1058464394
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