Spinoza and Other Heretics, Volume 1 The Marrano of Reason

Name: Spinoza and Other Heretics, Volume 1 The Marrano of Reason
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ISBN: 9780691020785

ISBN-10: 0691020787

ISBN-13: 9780691020785

Edition: 1989

Authors: Yirmiyahu Yovel

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This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity--and examines the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A number-one bestseller in Israel,Spinoza and Other Hereticsis made up of two volumes--The Marrano of Reason and The Adventures of Immanence. Yirmiyahu Yovel shows how Spinoza grounded a philosophical revolution in a radically new principle--the philosophy of immanence, or the idea that this world is all there is--and how he thereby anticipated secularization, the Enlightenment, the disintegration of ghetto life, and the rise of natural science and the liberal-democratic state. The Marrano of Reason The…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1989
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/28/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.792

Yirmiyahu Yovel is the Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research and chairman of the Jerusalem Spinoza Institute. He has written widely on philosophy and history, and his books include "Spinoza and Other Heretics" (Princeton); "Kant and the Philosophy of History" (Princeton); and "Dark Riddle: Hegel, Nietzsche, and the Jews".



Preface


Note on Sources



Prologue: Heretic and Banned



Spinoza, the Marrano of Reason



The Split Mind: New Jews in Amsterdam



Marranos in Mask and a World without Transcendence: Rojas and La Celestina



Spinoza, the Multitude, and Dual Language



Knowledge as Alternative Salvation



Epilogue: Spinoza and His People: The First Secular Jew?


Afterword


Notes


Index