Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity 9780805211597, 9780805242737, 2005040175, 0805211594

Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the ag

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Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
9780805211597, 9780805242737, 2005040175, 0805211594

Betraying Spinoza, Here is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero--a surprisingly

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