Spinoza's Heresy Immortality and the Jewish Mind [Paperback]

Why was the great philosopher Spinoza expelled from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition from which it arose.

1.Cheremin Amsterdam
2. Abominations and Heresies
3. Patriarchs, Prophets, and Rabbis
4. The Philosophers
5. Eternity and Immortality
6. The Life of Reason
7. Immortality on the Amstel
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index