{"product_id":"betraying-spinoza-the-renegade-jew-who-gave-us-modernity","title":"Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBetraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRebecca Goldstein\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780805242096\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSchocken \/ Nextbook\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2006\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e287\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003ePart of the Jewish Encounter series \u003cbr\u003eIn 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 was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza's progeny. \u003cbr\u003eIn \"Betraying Spinoza, \" Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition' s persecution of its forced Jewish converts plays itself out in Spinoza's philosophy. The excommunicated Spinoza, no less than his excommunicators, was responding to Europe' s first experiment with racial anti-Semitism. \u003cbr\u003eHere is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero--a surprisingly contemporary figure ripe for our own uncertain age.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Schocken \/ Nextbook","offers":[{"title":"Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity | Rebecca Goldstein | Hardcover | 9780805242096 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1751136","offer_id":48883964182680,"sku":"1751136","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41iLiLu-LsL.jpg?v=1776479172","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/betraying-spinoza-the-renegade-jew-who-gave-us-modernity","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}