In this text Leo Strauss articulates the conflict between reason and revelation as he explores Spinoza's scientific, comparative, and textual treatment of the Bible. He 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. An autobiographical preface to this book traces Strauss' 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.
- ISBN10 080520704X
- ISBN13 9780805207040
- Publish Date 12 March 1982 (first published June 1968)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 May 1995
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Schocken Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 351
- Language English