Reviews for Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation

The average rating for Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-11-17 00:00:00 Jessica Feder I didn't retain a lot of information about Spinoza's theories from my drive-by listening of this audiobook. Something about a system of reasoning Spinoza pulled out of his ass and decorated with pretty prose. Actually there were some really nice sound bites about jealousy and loss peppered throughout Strathern's cute little philosophic primer. Not much is known about Spinoza's life other than that he juked an assassin's attempt at knifing him (at least that is the detail that I remember most). Um, Spinoza pissed a lot of people off because he was neither Jewish nor Christian, and his ideas about religion did not really go with the program of the time. ...shit, I dunno. You tell me about Spinoza.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-07-15 00:00:00 Birgitta Granberg Read it just this morning (a bit under 90 minutes, did I read too fast?). While it's not a bad read in the strict sense, it really did not give me any solid sense of Spinoza's overall philosophy and quite often just felt like an outlet for the author's (rather bad) attempts at wittiness.