Key works about Spinoza’s critical role in the formation of modern Jewish identity Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict ...
Is there room for a novel about Baruch Spinoza in a publishing market crowded with supernatural creatures and kinky romance? Irvin D. Yalom thinks so. In fact, there’s plenty of room to describe the ...
because Spinoza’s Latin spirit fermented in an Ibn Tibbon Hebrew rebrew, a Marrano malt that neither is a single nor a double, but a triple, ale from three spirits which Spinoza’s mighty mind would ...
IN THE SUMMER of 1674, officials of the Dutch court carried out the recommendation of the States of Holland to ban the Theological-Political Treatise, a book that one of its more spiteful antagonists ...
Why do people work for other people? This seemingly naïve question is more difficult to answer than one might at first imagine, and it lies at the heart of Lordon's Willing Slaves of Capital. To ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article studies a series of provocative references to Spinoza by Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben. For both contemporary philosophers, ...
Among the innumerable treasures the Nazis stole from Europe during World War II was a collection of books displayed at the Spinoza Museum in Rijns­burg, Holland. Compared with the Rembrandts and ...