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Spinoza's heresy : immortality and the Jewish mind / Steven Nadler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nadler, Steven M., 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677--Views on immortality.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Portugees-Israëlietische Gemeente te Amsterdam--Membership.
- Portugees-Israëlietische Gemeente te Amsterdam.
- Immortality--Judaism.
- Immortality.
- Future life--Judaism.
- Future life.
- Jewish philosophy.
- Philosophy, Medieval.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores an episode in early intellectual history: the expulsion of the great philosopher Spinoza from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam. Why was Spinoza excommunicated? This work investigates this question and gives another perspective on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-26815-5
- 9786612268151
- 0-19-152997-4
- 1-4237-7097-8
- OCLC:
- 63293982
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