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Spinoza's heresy : immortality and the Jewish mind /

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Steven Nadler explores an intriguing episode in early modern intellectual history - the expulsion of the great philosopher Spinoza from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nadler, Steven M., 1958-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2001.
Subjects:
Portugees-Israëlietische Gemeente te Amsterdam > Membership.
Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677.
Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677
Portugees-Israëlietische Gemeente te Amsterdam
Future life > Judaism.
Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Immortality > Judaism.
Philosophie juive.
Philosophie médiévale.
Immortalité > Judaïsme.
Vie future > Judaïsme.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Immortality > Judaism
Future life > Judaism
Jewish philosophy
Membership requirements
Philosophy, Medieval
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cherem in Amsterdam
  • Abominations and heresies
  • Patriarchs, prophets, and rabbis
  • The philosophers
  • Eternity and immortality
  • The life of reason
  • Immortality on the Amstel.