Book Forged in Hell Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

Name: Book Forged in Hell Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
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ISBN: 9780691160184

ISBN-10: 069116018X

ISBN-13: 9780691160184

Edition: 2011

Authors: Stefen Nadler

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When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radical who sought to spread atheism throughout Europe. Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.73" wide x 8.66" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English