Spinoza, Life And Legacy Av Prof Jonathan I. (professor Emeritus Professor Emeritus School Of Historical Studies Institute For Advanced Study Princeto

A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man''s life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza''s reception in his own time and in the years following his death.The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if often concealed, impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers, historians, and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza, the man and his work, in the years immediately after his death in 1677, dominated much of his earlyreception owing to the revolutionary implications of his thought for philosophy, religion, practical ethics and lifestyle, Bible criticism, and political theory. Nevertheless, contrary to what has sometimes been m

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