Spinoza, Spinoza's Ethics

The book is deeply indebted to strauss in the way that he read spinoza. It's primarily intresting not only reading spinoza esoterically, but also making sense of his numerous contradictions. The vast, vast majority of spinoza scholarship gives priority to the ethicsd a thro spinoza's most mature philosophy. And then they'lllook on on generalizing here, but look back on the theological political treatise.