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Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza

Door Margaret Gullan-Whur

Categorie
Filosofie
Boeknummer
#389016-UI6
Titel
Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza
Auteur
Gullan-Whur, Margaret
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Pimlico
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
0712666524
ISBN13
9780712666527
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, illustraties in z/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting
The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that human beings are parts of a single, unified nature, that God is identical with nature, and that reason, not revelation, supplies the truth of any aspect of God. Undeterred, he made this thesis the basis for a rational crusade against superstition and prejudice. Dr Gullan-Whur's biography, the first for twenty-eight years, shows how Spinoza's central philosophical beliefs developed within the context of his own life. Drawing on very recent scholary research and making detailed reference to primary sources, some not previously explored, the author focuses on the philosopher's... (Lees verder) attempt to act solely through reason in the face of turbulent personal and national circumstances. This new approach demolishes the myth that Spinoza was a lofty ascetic. It exposes his emotional and sexual vulnerabilit arrogance and misogyny, yet shows his living philosophical experiment to be shrply relevant today.
Pagina's
398
Conditie
Goed — Name, place and date on half title; edges and corners cover worn.
Prijs
€ 9,00

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