Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity by Rebecca Goldstein

Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

Rebecca Goldstein

304 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history philosophy reflective slow-paced
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Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 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 th...

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