The Betraying Spinoza. Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

n 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, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza’s progeny.

data wydania

11 sierpnia 2009

ISBN

0805211594

język

angielski