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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108425542

ISBN-139781108425544

eBay Product ID (ePID)242957858

Product Key Features

Number of Pages420 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameSpinoza : Alife

SubjectPhilosophers, Individual Philosophers, History & Surveys / Modern

Publication Year2018

FeaturesRevised

TypeTextbook

AuthorSteven. Nadler

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Biography & Autobiography

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight30.8 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2018-287543

Dewey Edition21

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal199/.492 B

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments; Preface; 1. Settlement; 2. Abraham and Michael; 3. Bento/Baruch; 4. Talmud Torah; 5. A merchant of Amsterdam; 6. Cherem; 7. Benedictus; 8. A philosopher in Rijnsburg; 9. 'The Jew of Voorburg'; 10. Homo politicus; 11. Calm and turmoil in The Hague; 12. 'A free man thinks least of all of death'; A note on sources.

Edition DescriptionRevised edition

SynopsisThe standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher, now updated to draw on the latest archival discoveries, offers an engaging narrative of Spinoza's life and times and an accessible introduction to his radical ideas. Essential to scholars, it will also appeal to a broad readership interested in early modern Europe., Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual, and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. This new edition of Steven Nadler's biography, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for biography and translated into a dozen languages, is enhanced by exciting new archival discoveries about his family background, his youth, and the various philosophical, political, and religious contexts of his life and works. There is more detail about his family's business and communal activities, about his relationships with friends and correspondents, and about the development of his writings, which were so scandalous to his contemporaries.

LC Classification NumberB3997