Betraying Spinoza - The renegade jew who gave us modernity

Rebecca Goldstein

Schoken

2006

287 páginas

9h 34m

ISBN-10: 0805242090

In Betraying Spinoza Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the fles-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