Betraying Spinoza
The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
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- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2010
Summary
A remarkable account of the most important modern Jewish philosopher.Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780805211597 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0805211594 |
| Author: | Rebecca Goldstein |
| Publisher: | Schocken Books |
| Imprint: | Schocken Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 301g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Jewish Encounters Series |
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“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
About The Author
Rebecca Goldstein
REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEINreceived her doctorate in philosophy from Princeton University. Her award-winning books include the novelsThe Mind-Body Problem,Properties of Light,and36 Arguments for the Existence of God- A Work of Fictionand nonfiction studies of Kurt G del and Baruch Spinoza. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, has been designated a Humanist of the Year and a Freethought Heroine, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2015.She lives in Massachusetts.
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