A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
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| ISBN | 0813124549 |
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| ISBN | 0253218284 |
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| Author | Matthew Stewart |
| ISBN | 0393329178 |
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According to Nietzsche, "Every great philosophy is... a personal confession of its creator and a kind of involuntary and unperceived memoir.". Stewart affirms this maxim in his colorful reinterpretation of the lives and works of 17th-century...
| Author | Richard Kearney |
| ISBN | 0231147880 |
Has the passing of the old God paved the way for a new kind of religious project, a more responsible way to seek, sound, and love the things we call divine? Has the suspension of dogmatic certainties and presumptions opened a space in which we can encounter religious wonder anew? Situated at the split between...
| Author | Christopher Phillips |
| ISBN | 0393326799 |
What is virtue? What is moderation? What is justice? What is courage? What is good? What is piety? Socrates thought that understanding the perspectives of others on these six great questions would help him become a more excellent human being. Following in Socrates's footsteps, Christopher Phillips—"Johnny...
| Author | Rebecca Goldstein |
| ISBN | 0805242090 |
Part of the Jewish Encounter series
In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original....
| Author | Baruch Spinoza |
| ISBN | 0872206076 |
God is nature, and nature is God
An in-depth incursion, by an excommunicated Jew*, into the authorship of the Pentateuch and other Old Testament books. Moses at [the] stake. An insightful analysis of the language, by an expert in Hebrew language,...
One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life
| Author | Eddie Stern |
| ISBN | 0865478392 |
A pragmatic and succinct introduction to the purposes and benefits of yoga--philosophical, physiological, mental, and spiritual--and how practice affects the body/mind to realize those purposes and benefits
Yoga is reputed to improve our physical and mental health, and to help us become...
| Author | Marco Balzano |
| ISBN | 8806237411 |
Quando arriva la guerra o l'inondazione, la gente scappa. La gente, non Trina. Caparbia come il paese di confine in cui è cresciuta, sa opporsi ai fascisti che le impediscono di fare la maestra. Non ha paura di fuggire sulle montagne col marito disertore. E quando le acque della diga stanno per sommergere...
