Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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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Paperback $16.00
Aug 11, 2009 | ISBN 9780805211597
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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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