The First Modern Jew : : Spinoza and the History of an Image /

The First Modern Jew : : Spinoza and the History of an Image / / Daniel B. Schwartz.

Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three ce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Schwartz, Daniel B.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translations and Romanization
  • Introduction. Spinoza's Jewish Modernities
  • Chapter 1. Ex-Jew, Eternal Jew
  • Chapter 2. Refining Spinoza
  • Chapter 3. The First Modern Jew
  • Chapter 4. A Rebel against the Past, A Revealer of Secrets
  • Chapter 5. From the Heights of Mount Scopus
  • Chapter 6. Farewell, Spinoza
  • Epilogue. Spinoza Redivivus in the Twenty-First Century
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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