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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographie collective biographies Biographies |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- Betraying Spinoza. New York : Nextbook : Schocken, ©2006 (OCoLC)607821889 Online version: Goldstein, Rebecca, 1950- Betraying Spinoza. New York : Nextbook : Schocken, ©2006 (OCoLC)607903062 |
Named Person: | Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza; Baruch Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Goldstein |
ISBN: | 0805242090 9780805242096 |
OCLC Number: | 61859859 |
Description: | 287 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
Contents: | Prologue: Baruch, Bento, Benedictus -- In search of Baruch -- The project of escape -- Identity crisis -- For the eyes of the mind. |
Series Title: | Jewish encounters. |
Responsibility: | Rebecca Goldstein. |
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Abstract:
A portrait of the renegade seventeenth-century Jewish philosopher examines the events of his life, his heretical writings and his excommunication by Amsterdam's Jewish community, and the cultural and religious context and influence of his ideas.
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