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Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
Steven Nadler
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Description for Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
hardcover. Steven Nadler explores an intriguing episode in early modern intellectual history: the expulsion of the great philosopher Spinoza from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam. Why was Spinoza excommunicated? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought. Num Pages: 242 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DDN; HPCD; HPD; HRAB; HRAM7; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality: there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong ... Read more
At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality: there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
OUP Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
242
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199247073
SKU
KSG0034712
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About Steven Nadler
Steven Nadler is Professor of Philosophy, and a member of the faculty of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Reviews for Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
Nadler has with great panache and clarity drawn together a sweeping command of Jewish intellectual history, a nuanced cultural understanding of the Sephardic Amsterdam of Spinoza's youth, and a tightly argued reading of Spinoza's philosophy. All serious readers will be stimulated by this volume, whether or not they are fully convinced by its argument. This is also an eminently teachable ... Read more