A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Steven Nadler
ISBN: | 9780691160184 |
Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
Published: | 24 November, 2013 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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A Book Forged in Hell
Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Steven Nadler
"When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality. Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired."--P. [4] of cover.
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