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100			_aGoldstein, Rebecca
245			_aBetraying Spinoza : the renegade Jew who gave us modernity
260			_bSchocken, _c2009 _aNew York :
300			_a287 p. ; _bill., _c21 cm
365			_b899.00 _cINR _d00
490			_aJewish encounters
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aIn 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.
650			_aSpinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677
650			_aJewish philosophers
650			_aNetherlands
650			_aBiography
650			_aJewish heretics
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