Spinoza, Life and Legacy

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.

Auteur

Jonathan I. Israel, Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Texte du rabat

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.