Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity
Schocken Books Inc, May 2006. Hardcover. Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it..... More