Spinoza, Life and Legacy
Jonathan I. Israel
Spinoza, Life and Legacy
Jonathan I. Israel
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English
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Description
A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, examining the man's life, relationships, career, and writings, while forcing us to rethink how we previously understood his reception in the fields of philosophy, religion, ethics, and political theory in his own time and in the years following his death.
Monumental...a brilliant biography... Jonathan Israel has more than done justice to this ultimately elusive genius
Definitive
This biography is a worthy conclusion to Israel's immense Enlightenment project.
This monumental work should be added to the short list of modern biographies of Baruch Spinoza (1632-77)...Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty
Israel has done a great deal to illuminate Spinoza's unwavering rationalism, drawing out its revolutionary implications and charting its clandestine dissemination and profound impact on European thought.
[A] tour-de-force... [a] meticulous survey of Spinoza's background, the Dutch political history, and his intellectual life in the seventeenth century.
With the publication of Spinoza, Life and Legacy, Israel has given us a book as vast as Spinoza's god... Israel, astonishingly prolix, passionate, and exhaustive, has created around Spinoza a vast fresco of an era, densely populated with characters, genealogies, situations, ideas, episodes, and conflicts.
Monumental...a brilliant biography... Jonathan Israel has more than done justice to this ultimately elusive genius
Definitive
This biography is a worthy conclusion to Israel's immense Enlightenment project.
This monumental work should be added to the short list of modern biographies of Baruch Spinoza (1632-77)...Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty
Israel has done a great deal to illuminate Spinoza's unwavering rationalism, drawing out its revolutionary implications and charting its clandestine dissemination and profound impact on European thought.
[A] tour-de-force... [a] meticulous survey of Spinoza's background, the Dutch political history, and his intellectual life in the seventeenth century.
With the publication of Spinoza, Life and Legacy, Israel has given us a book as vast as Spinoza's god... Israel, astonishingly prolix, passionate, and exhaustive, has created around Spinoza a vast fresco of an era, densely populated with characters, genealogies, situations, ideas, episodes, and conflicts.