Spinoza

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2013-09-10 | In 1656, a dried-fruit importer named Spinoza was exiled from Amsterdam for ?evil opinions.' His response: ?All the better? more »

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2015-10-19 | Philosophy and poetry. Inspired by Santayana and Spinoza, Wallace Stevens addressed poetically the search for truth more »

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2016-04-29 | Why is a 17th-century Portuguese-Jewish philosopher, a writer of dense and opaque prose, so popular? Spinoza is a heretic for our times more »

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2013-06-22 | A secret network of Spinoza-influenced scholars was responsible for spreading the Enlightenment: Jonathan Israel's 3,000-page opus makes the case more »

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2014-05-09 | Steven Pinker learned early that every intellectual needs an affectation. So he's left his Spinoza-like hairdo ? long, curly ? unchanged since the 70s more »

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2017-08-30 | How did religious freedom come to the West? Spinoza and Locke are often invoked, but in reality, persecution simply became too expensive more »

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2011-01-01 | In the market for a new philosophy? Rebecca Goldstein has a tip: Postmodernists are out; rationalists are in; short-sell Heidegger because the smart money is on Spinoza more »

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2016-06-02 | The most influential Jewish philosopher is the one Jewish philosopher to have been excommunicated. Spinoza paved the way for modern Judaism. It’s time to rethink his ban more »

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2018-05-12 | “The evil opinions and acts of Baruch de Spinoza.” At the age of 23, the future philosopher was expelled from his Jewish community. What had he done? more »

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2015-12-25 | Chimen Abramsky made room in his London home for 20,000 volumes, including first editions by Spinoza and Marx. Meet one of the 20th
century’s great bibliophiles more »