Description

Philosophical texts of the early modern era in which sanctions were imposed on those who entertained deviating views require a particular hermeneutical approach: According to Leo Strauss the interpreter’s task is to uncover their ?esoteric` messages. The contributions both address the methodological problems of Strauss’s hermeneutics and discuss paradigmatic cases of candidates for a ?reading between the lines`: Hobbes, Spinoza, and Bayle.