Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker by Devra Lehmann

Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker

Devra Lehmann

292 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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A brilliant schoolboy in seventeenth-century Amsterdam quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is twenty-three, those ideas prove so scandalous to his religious community that he is cast out, cursed, and effectively erased from their ...

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