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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Jewish Encounters)
Betraying Spinoza The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity - Jewish Encounters
Author: Rebecca Goldstein
In 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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780805211597
ISBN-10: 0805211594
Publication Date: 8/11/2009
Pages: 287
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Publisher: Schocken
Book Type: Paperback
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