Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
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Episode: Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Pub date: 2026-06-02
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In 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was accused of unspecified “horrifying heresies,” but the precise reasons for his expulsion remain a mystery. When he published his Theological-Political Treatise in 1670, which was condemned as “the…
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