| Title Statement |
Spinoza: freedom's messiah / Ian Buruma. |
| Series |
Jewish lives |
| Author |
Buruma, Ian |
| Publication |
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,[2024]©2024 |
| Extent of Item |
viii, 200 pages ; |
| ISBN |
9780300248920 (hardcover) |
| Other Number |
pr07654749 |
| Contents |
Everyone's Spinoza --The safe place --Born to strife --Driven out of the temple --The dark years --Far from the madding crowd --Secular salvation --Radical enlightenment --Mob rage --Lonely at the top --His last breath --Spinozism. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-187) and index. |
| Summary |
"In this insightful account, the award-winning author Ian Buruma stresses the importance of the time and place that shaped Spinoza, beginning with the Sephardim of Amsterdam and followed by the politics of the Dutch Republic. Though Spinoza rejected the basic assumptions of his family's faith, and was consequently expelled from his Sephardic community, Buruma argues that Spinoza did indeed lead a Jewish life: a modern Jewish life. To Heine, Hess, Marx, Freud, and no doubt many others today, Spinoza exemplified how to be Jewish without believing in Judaism. His defense of universal freedom is as important for our own time as it was in his."-- |
| Subjects & Genres |
| By Topic |
Philosophers--Biography--Netherlands |
| By Name |
Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677 |
| Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677--Influence |
| Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677--Political and social views |
| By Genre |
Biographies |
