Spinoza, Baruch: Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity.(Brief article)(Book review)

Biography | June 22, 2006| | Copyright

Spinoza, Baruch Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. Rebecca Goldstein. New York: Notebook/Schocken, 2006. 287 pp. $19.95.

"Goldstein seems well aware that the word 'betraying' in her title is both verb and adjective. She perhaps means by it her own anxiety at betraying him, but I cannot avoid interpreting it as a modifier, since she insists upon a Jewish context, which ultimately seems to me irrelevant. Spinoza taught an intellectual love for his God, a God himself incapable of love. Though his enemies called him an 'atheistic Jew,' he himself ...

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