Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind

ISBN-13: 9780199247073 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 190 str.

Steven M. Nadler

Opis

Why was the great philosopher Spinoza expelled from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose.

Recenzje

Nadlers project is intriguing because it takes us right into the heart of the most difficult and interesting parts of Spinozas philosophy, as well as into the thick of the historical milieu in which the expulsion took place and which helped shape Spinozas intellectual development. ... Nadler does an excellent job of summarizing and synthesizing a vast body of literature into an accessible and plausible narrative.

O autorze

Steven Nadler is Professor of Philosophy, and a member of the faculty of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.