May 26, 2006
The Legacy of Leo Strauss
To the Editor:
Richard Wolin's "Leo Strauss, Judaism, and Liberalism" (The Chronicle Review, April 14) seriously misrepresents Leo Strauss's thought and political judgments. First of all, Wolin's account of Strauss as a dogmatist and Spinoza as a skeptic precisely reverses their actual roles, since it was Spinoza who, for polemical purposes of his own, dogmatically rejected the claims of biblical faith, while Strauss, in insisting that the question of the primacy of faith or reason
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