Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

5 best books like Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (Rebecca Goldstein): Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition), The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event, The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World, Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

Dictionary of the Khazars (Male Edition)

Author	Milorad Pavić
ISBN	0679724613

A national bestseller, Dictionary of the Khazars was cited by The New York Times Book Review as one of the best books of the year. Written in two versions, male and female (both available in Vintage International), which are identical save for seventeen crucial lines, Dictionary is the imaginary book...

The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event

Author	John D. Caputo
ISBN	0253218284

Applying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian deconstruction, and feminism), John D. Caputo breaks down the name of God in this irrepressible book. Instead of looking at God as merely a name, Caputo views it as an event, or what the name...

The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza & the Fate of God in the Modern World

Author	Matthew Stewart
ISBN	0393329178

From Publisher's Weekly Starred Review.

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...

Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery through World Philosophy

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...

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

Author

Steven Nadler

When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political...