Conversation with Spinoza : a cobweb novel / Goce Smilevski ; translated from the Macedonian by Filip Korženski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smilevski, Goce.

Contributor:

Korženski, Filip.

Series:

Writings from an unbound Europe

Standardized Title:

Razgovor so Spinoza. English

Language:

English

Macedonian

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677--Fiction.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Philosophers--Netherlands--Fiction.

Philosophers.

Intellectual life.

Netherlands--Intellectual life--17th century--Fiction.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

136 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Prizing ideas above all else, radical thinker Baruch Spinoza left little behind in the way of personal facts and furnishings. But what of the tug of necessity, the urgings of the flesh, to which this genius philosopher (and grinder of lenses) might have been no more immune than the next man-or the next character, as Baruch Spinoza becomes in this intriguing novel by the remarkable young Macedonian author Goce Smilevski. Smilevski's novel brings the thinker Spinoza and his inner life into conversation with the outer, all-too-real facts of his life and his day--from his connection to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, his excommunication in 1656, and the emergence of his philosophical system to his troubling feelings for his fourteen-year-old Latin teacher Clara Maria van den Enden and later his disciple Johannes Casearius. From this conversation there emerges a compelling and complex portrait of the life of an idea--and of a man who tries to live that idea.

Contents:

A Note to the Reader 3

The Center of the Cobweb 125

Instead of an Epilogue: Why Spinoza? 129.

ISBN:

0810123754

0810123762

OCLC:

62697152

Publisher Number:

9780810123755

9780810123762