Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | 199.492 GOL (Browse shelf) | Available | 032932 |
199.492 DEL Spinoza | 199.492 DEL Expressionism in philosophy: spinoza. | 199.492 DEL Spinoza : practical philosophy | 199.492 GOL Betraying Spinoza : the renegade Jew who gave us modernity | 199.492 HUI Erasmus and the age of reformation : with a selection from the letters of Erasmus | 199.492 ISR Benedict de Spinoza : theological-political treatise | 199.492 NAD Book forged in hell: Spinoza's scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age |
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In 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, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza's progeny." "In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition's persecution of its forced Jewish converts plays itself out in Spinoza's philosophy. The excommunicated Spinoza, no less than his excommunicators, was responding to Europe's first experiment with racial anti-Semitism.
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