"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 fait…
Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) - often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker - was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza's legacy. Steven B. Smith shows that Spinoza was a politicall…
Baruch Spinoza (1632-77) - often recognized as the first modern Jewish thinker - was also a founder of modern liberal political philosophy. This book is the first to connect systematically these two aspects of Spinoza's legacy. Steven B. Smith shows that Spinoza was a politicall…
This collection of essays explores the religious implications and connections of Deleuze's thinking. It sets his writing in the context of a wide spectrum of textual material, including patristics, mysticism, dogmatic theology and literature.
This collection of essays explores the religious implications and connections of Deleuze's thinking. It sets his writing in the context of a wide spectrum of textual material, including patristics, mysticism, dogmatic theology and literature.
by Davies, Brian, (Brian Evan Anthony)
fromOpus
This new, completely revised and updated edition places particular emphasis on matters which have recently become philosophically controversial. Brian Davies provides a critical examination of the fundamental questions of religion and the ways in which these questions have been …
by Girard, René
fromLe livre de poche. Biblio essais
"Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence--Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, an…
