Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza

by Margaret Gullan-Whur

Book Overview

The 17th-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam at the age of 24 for horrendous heresies and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that humans were parts of a unified nature, that God was identical with nature, and that reason, not revelation, supplied the truth of God.This biography, drawing on very recent scholarly research and making detailed references to primary sources,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312253583
• ISBN13: 9780312253585
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 6.3" x 1.4"