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Deciphering Spinoza, the Great Original
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International Herald Tribune
06-17-2006
Betraying Spinoza The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity By Rebecca Goldstein 287 pages. $19.95. Nextbook/Schocken. *To anatomize influence, you may well begin with its greatest denier, Baruch Spinoza. His ''Ethics'' exiles contingency, singularity and all scenes of instruction, by which we learn from those who precede us. But was this Great Original original? He flew through the nets of Judaism, Calvinism, Aristotelianism an...
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Thursday Book: The philosopher's philosopher WITHIN REASON: A LIFE OF SPINOZA BY MARGARET GULLAN-WHUR, JONATHAN CAPE, pounds 20
The Independent - London
; BERTRAND RUSSELL wrote of Spinoza that he was "supreme" in ethics, if not in metaphysics, "the noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers" and predictably anathematised as wicked during his life and for much of the 17th century. Accused of "horrendous heresies", which he could not be bribed
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First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; Spinoza has had an umistakable appeal for free thinkers -- Jewish and gentile -- over the past two centuries, and his appeal seems greatest when a rigorous institutionalized faith collides with a secular fervor. Thus, in the tense atmosphere of Israel's culture wars, Spinoza has emerged as
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Books: How to find true happiness Ben Rogers on the life of a bold metaphysical thinker who believed in choice and caution; Spinoza: A Life by Stephen Nadler Cambridge pounds 22.95 Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza by Margaret Gullan- Whur Pimlico pounds 14
The Independent - London
; Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77), a product of the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic , is perhaps the greatest metaphysician since Plato, an original thinker, in some ways eerily modern. Deeply impressed by the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Descartes, Spinoza was the first
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Koistinen, Olli and John Biro, editors. Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes.(Book Review)
The Review of Metaphysics
; KOISTINEN, Olli and John BIRO, editors. Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 255 pp. Cloth, $49.95--This collection of eleven previously unpublished essays should serve both as a valuable resource for Spinoza studies and as a potent stimulus to them.
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Barukh Spinoza - Founder of the ACLU? Seeing in the Excommunicated
Forward
; Forward 05-23-1997 Barukh Spinoza -- Founder of the ACLU? Seeing in the Excommunicated Philosopher the Roots of Liberalism Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity By Steven Smith Yale University Press 288 pages, $30. No figure in Jewish history has enjoyed so varied and rich an
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Spinoza's faith in reason A view of the truth
International Herald Tribune
; Rebecca Newberger Goldstein International Herald Tribune 07-31-2006 Thursday marked the 350th anniversary of the excommunication of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza from the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam in which he had been raised. The Spinoza anniversary didn't get a lot of attention.
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philosophy Noel malcolm wonders how far spinoza and Leibniz, opposites in everything, shaped the modern world
The Sunday Telegraph London
; The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World BY MATTHEW STEWART YALE, pounds 16.95, 351 pp T pounds 14.95 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115 When Radio Three announced that it was going to play the complete works of Bach in 10 days, my first thought was:
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Spinoza, liberalism, science, and contemporary judaism.(Benedict Spinoza)
Shofar
; For centuries Benedict Spinoza has been regarded as everything from an antisemite to anti-Biblical. These and similar charges are not supported by recent analyses. Spinoza was an intellectual figure who believed deeply in a Deity while opening up the Torah to the same kind of criticism that would
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Unrequited sublimations: Borges reads Spinoza.(Jorge Luis Borges, Baruch Spinoza)
The Romanic Review
; The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy cites Jorge Luis Borges--along with Wordsworth, Coleridge, Heine, George Eliot, and George Sand, Somerset Maugham, and Bernard Malamud--as creative writers influenced by Baruch Spinoza. The inclusion of Borges in this list honors the Argentine fabulist, but it
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The equality of mankind
The Spectator
; Daniel Barenboim on the relevance of Spinoza's Ethics to the Middle East and music I read Spinoza's Ethics for the first time when I was 13 years old. Of course we studied the Bible at school - which for me is the ultimate philosophical work. However, reading Spinoza opened up a new dimension. I am
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