16 results for '"Baruch Spinoza"'

Product Description Voici Spinoza tel qu'en lui-même : il plaisante, travaille, s'inquiète, s'enthousiasme, parfois même se fâche. Des amis proches ou des lecteurs lointains lui écrivent des...

Antonio Negri offers a profound understanding of Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) and his contemporary legacy, demonstrating the thinker's ongoing relevance across politics and philosophy

There is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field of...

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity--and examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A...

Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the Sephardi Diaspora in the seventeenth century. After studying medicine and theology in...

For nearly two thousand years, Hebrew belonged to the realm of the sacred. A written liturgical language used primarily by rabbis and scholars, it was not spoken in everyday contexts. A revival...

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in...

"How did Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher, become a nineteenth-century German Marxist? It is on its face an unlikely development. Karl Marx was a fiery revolutionary...

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity―and examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-one...

From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, a fascinating historical and philosophical narrative that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheistIn 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was...

Ian Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time A New Yorker "Best Book of 2024"...

The story of one of the most important—and incendiary—books in Western historyWhen it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever...

The story of one of the most important—and incendiary—books in Western historyWhen it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever...

An Open Letters Review Best Book of the Year“Grafton presents largely unfamiliar material...in a clear, even breezy style...Erudite.”—Michael Dirda, Washington PostIn this celebration of bookmaking...

Challenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism.According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and...

"The seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza has long been known--and vilified--for his heretical view of God and for the radical determinism he sees governing the cosmos and...