Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307514172 (030751417X)
Publish date: January 16th 2009
Publisher: Schocken
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Golsdstein describes the style of this book as a memoir, which captures well enough the way it weaves together a biography of Spinoza, an introduction to his philosophy, an attempt to place this in the context of his times and his particular cultural history as a Jew in the 17th Century, and some pe...
Spinoza, seventeenth century Amsterdam, the Spanish Inquisition, Descartes, Leibniz, Maimonides, Kabbalah--This book is fascinating.