of meaning. All philosophical books written before the Enlightenment aim at both a wider audience and a small elite, able to understand the deeper meaning of the texts." This approach informed Brague's understanding of Maimonides and the medieval Muslim philosopher Al-Farabi, among others, but he declared himself unconvinced "that it applies to the Greek philosophers" in the way Strauss has taught. Brague holds that "Strauss became so convinced of his own way of interpreting texts, that he came to apply it to all sorts of books, even Cervantes Don Quixote. Strauss taught me to read very carefully. But I don't consider myself a Straussian, nor do the real Straussians consider me as one of them." Arguably, Brague's "Roman" view of Western Intellectual History (as enunciated in Eccentric Culture) forms a kind of response to Strauss' famous emphasis on the longstanding tension between Athens and Jerusalem. For Brague, we cannot understand this tension correctly without understanding the historic mediation of both Athens and Jerusalem through Rome. Likewise, Brague's account of Divine Law in the Western intellectual tradition (as presented in The Law of God) reframes the relationship between faith and reason, the secular and the sacred, in response to Strauss' recurrent emphasis on "the Theological-Political Problem." Brague is the recipient of numerous awards, including honors by both the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the Academy of Moral and Political Science. In 2009, he received both the Josef Pieper Prize and the Grand prix de philosophie de l'Académie française, and he was awarded the 2012 Ratzinger Prize for Theology alongside Brian E. Daley. In 2013, he was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Légion d'honneur. References Works Books and Edited Volumes in French (and other languages): Sur la religion. Paris: Flammarion, 2018. with E. Grimi, Contro il cristianismo e lumanismo. Il perdono dell'Occidente. Siena: Cantagalli, 2015. Le Règne de l'homme: Genèse et échec du projet moderne. Paris: Gallimard, 2015. Modérément moderne: Le Temps Modernes ou l'invention d'une supercherie. Paris: Flammarion, 2014. Le Propre de l'homme. Sur une légitimité menacée. Paris: Flammarion, 2013. Les Ancres dans le ciel: L'infrastructure métaphysique. Paris: Seuil, 2011. Du Dieu des chrétiens et d'un ou deux autres, Paris: Flammarion, 2008. Image vagabonde: Essai sur l'imaginaire baudelairien. Chatou: Éditions de la Transparence, 2008. Au moyen du Moyen Age: Philosophies médiévales en chrétienté, judaïsme et islam. Chatou: Éditions de la Transparence, 2006. La Loi de Dieu.