Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
Steven Nadler
248 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0199268878
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Language: English
Publish: 1077782400000
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.