Download or read book Persecution and the Art of Writing written by Leo Strauss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1988-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in Persecution and the Art of Writing all deal with one problem—the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.