Betraying Spinoza by Rebecca Goldstein

Betraying Spinoza

Rebecca Goldstein

287 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction biography history philosophy reflective slow-paced
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Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 1656, Amsterdam's Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion th...

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