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Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business-and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as the atheist Jew. As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as God's attorney. In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century-and continues today.Product Identifiers
PublisherWW Norton & Co
ISBN-139780393329179
eBay Product ID (ePID)88978619
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World
AuthorMatthew Stewart
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicNature, Popular Philosophy
Publication Year2007
Dimensions
Item Height211mm
Item Width140mm
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Title_AuthorMatthew Stewart
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States