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Written on: 24/05/2006 by Harriet Klausner (18637 reviews written)
Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Rebecca Goldstein
Schocken, Jun 2006, $19.95
ISBN: 0805242090
The "Jewish Encounters" series looks into the philosophers and their topics that forged the foundation of the modern Jewish culture (see MAIMONIDES by Sherwin B. Nuland and THE LIFE OF DAVID by Robert Pinsky). Thus Spinoza on the surface seems an odd choice as Rebecca Goldstein intelligently opens her biography of the great seventeenth century philosopher with the paradox…
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