Tribune on MSN10 个月
Spinoza, Breaking Bad and the Race to the Bottom Mindset
This is the question that Philosopher Jason Read set out to answer in his new book ‘The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the ...
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'Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah': Paving the way for secular Jewish identity
In the beginning was Uriel da Costa. Then came Baruch Spinoza. A mercurial recusant born in 1585 in Porto, Portugal, da Costa was a Catholic scion of prosperous Portuguese crypto-Jewish Conversos ...
Brandeis University4 年
Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy
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 ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency9 年
Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jews banned philosopher Baruch Spinoza. 360 years later, could the ...
AMSTERDAM (JTA) – More than 350 years after this city’s Portuguese Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza and banned his writings for eternity, the philosopher’s books are for sale ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency3 年
A Jewish expert on Spinoza was named ‘persona non grata’ in Amsterdam’s synagogue and ...
“You have devoted your life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas,” Serfaty wrote to Yitzhak Melamed. (JTA) — More than 350 years after Baruch Spinoza was ...