{"product_id":"9780226275994","title":"Political Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion","description":"Heinrich Meier’s guiding insight in \u003ci\u003ePolitical Philosophy and the Challenge of Revealed Religion\u003c\/i\u003e is that philosophy must prove its right and its necessity in the face of the claim to truth and demand obedience of its most powerful opponent, revealed religion. Philosophy must rationally justify and politically defend its free and unreserved questioning, and, in doing so, turns decisively to political philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the first of three chapters, Meier determines four intertwined moments constituting the concept of political philosophy as an articulated and internally dynamic whole. The following two chapters develop the concept through the interpretation of two masterpieces of political philosophy that have occupied Meier’s attention for more than thirty years: Leo Strauss’s \u003ci\u003eThoughts on Machiavelli\u003c\/i\u003e and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s \u003ci\u003eSocial Contract\u003c\/i\u003e. Meier provides a detailed investigation of \u003ci\u003eThoughts on Machiavelli,\u003c\/i\u003e with an appendix containing Strauss’s original manuscript headings for each of his paragraphs. Linking the problem of Socrates (the origin of political philosophy) with the problem of Machiavelli (the beginning of modern political philosophy), while placing between them the political and theological claims opposed to philosophy, Strauss’s most complex and controversial book proves to be, as Meier shows, the most astonishing treatise on the challenge of revealed religion. The final chapter, which offers a new interpretation of the \u003ci\u003eSocial Contract,\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates that Rousseau’s most famous work can be adequately understood only as a coherent political-philosophic response to theocracy in all its forms.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073586446576,"sku":"9780226275994","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/425449863.jpg?v=1744706156","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226275994","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}