Expelled from the Jewish community of his day, Spinoza went on to construct a lasting philosophy. From: The Washington Post | Date: May 21, 2006| Author: Michael Dirda | Copyright 2006 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

BETRAYING SPINOZA

The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

By Rebecca Goldstein

Nextbook/Schocken. 304 pp. $19.95 Contemporaries called him "Satan incarnate" and "the most impious atheist who ever lived upon face of the earth." But he is now revered as arguably the greatest philosopher since Plato, as the political theorist who first enunciated the general principles for a secular democratic society, and in many ways a modern saint. Baruch, later Benedict, de Spinoza (163...

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