Publication

1997 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

67,500 words, Guess

Page Count

270 pages

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  • Goodreads847242

Classifications

  • DDC199/.492
  • LCCB3985.Z7 S55 1997

Description

Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) - often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker - was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza's legacy. Steven B. Smith shows that Spinoza was a politically engaged theorist who both advocated and embodied a new conception of the emancipated individual, a thinker who decisively influenced such diverse movements as the Enlightenment, liberalism, and political Zionism.

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