Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker
The Outcast Thinker
$31.87
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
27 August 2024
Summary
An entertaining and accessible introduction to the radical philosopher of freedom of thought and religion, this is the only biography of Spinoza for young adults.
A brilliant schoolboy in 17th-century Amsterdam, Bento Spinoza—formally Baruch and later Benedict de Spinoza—quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is 23, those ideas prove so scandalous to his own Jewish community that he is cast out, cursed, and effectively erased from their communal life. The scandal shows n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644212622 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1644212625 |
| Author: | Devra Lehmann |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Triangle Square |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 210mm |
| Series: | Philosophy for Young People |
| Audience Age: | 13-17 |
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Devra Lehmann
DEVRA LEHMANN is the author of Socrates: A Life Worth Living and Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker, which won the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature. In her 35 years in the classroom, she has taught preschoolers to sound out monosyllables, high schoolers to read Shakespeare, and adults to parse Talmudic passages. She is now at work on a young adult biography of Augustine of Hippo.
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