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The First Modern Jew : Spinoza and the History of an Image /

"Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Schwartz, Daniel B., 1974-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Spinoza's Jewish modernities
  • Ex-Jew, eternal Jew: early representations of the Jewish Spinoza
  • Refining Spinoza : Moses Mendelssohn's response to the Amsterdam heretic
  • The first modern Jew : Berthold Auerbach's Spinoza and the beginnings of an image
  • A rebel against the past, a revealer of secrets : Salomon Rubin and the east European Maskilic Spinoza
  • From the heights of Mount Scopus : Yosef Klausner and the Zionist rehabilitation of Spinoza
  • Farewell, Spinoza : I.B. Singer and the tragicomedy of the Jewish Spinozist
  • Epilogue : Spinoza Redivivus in the twenty-first century.