Betraying Spinoza
By Rebecca Goldstein
By Rebecca Goldstein
By Rebecca Goldstein
By Rebecca Goldstein
Part of Jewish Encounters Series
Part of Jewish Encounters Series
Category: Biography & Memoir
Category: Biography & Memoir
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$19.00
Aug 11, 2009 | ISBN 9780805211597
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Aug 11, 2009 | ISBN 9780805242737
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Praise
“Beautifully crafted. What seem like separate issues—Spinoza’s pioneering advocacy of complete freedom of thought in religious matters; the turmoil in the Jewish community; the fateful events in Amsterdam in the closing years of Spinoza’s life; the philosophical developments of the seventeenth century; Spinoza’s idea of a philosophical religion utterly purged of all anthropomorphism, even to the extent of denying that God is a ‘person’ in any sense—come together as if by themselves (the sure sign of a fine artist!) to answer my puzzle: how to understand Spinoza the human being, a man for whom reason itself was a kind of salvation.”
—Hilary Putnam, New York Observer
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