Spinoza, Baruch: Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity.(Brief article)(Book review) From: Biography | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: Bloom, Harold | COPYRIGHT 2006 University of Hawaii Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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 ...

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