Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind

Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind

by Steven Nadler
ISBN-10:
0199247072
ISBN-13:
9780199247073
Pub. Date:
05/02/2002
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199247072
ISBN-13:
9780199247073
Pub. Date:
05/02/2002
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind

Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind

by Steven Nadler
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Overview

Why was the great philosopher Spinoza expelled from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199247073
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/02/2002
Pages: 242
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Steven Nadler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

1. Cherem in Amsterdam
2. Abominations and Heresies
3. Patriarchs, Prophets, and Rabbis
4. The Philosophers
5. Eternity and Immortality
6. The Life of Reason
7. Immortality on the Amstel
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
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