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RSB’s Book of the Week: Conversation with Spinoza
Ready Steady Book always has great picks for their Book of the Week capsule reviews, but I thought I would mention this week’s Conversation with Spinoza by the Macedonian author Goce Smilevski because it looks really great and it’s part of Northwestern University Press’s ”Writings from an Unbound Europe” series, which I think is really fantastic and worth your perusal.
Smilevski’s novel brings the thinker Spinoza, all inner life, into conversation with the outer, all-too-real facts of his life and his day—from his connection to the Jewish community of Amsterdam, his excommunication in 1656, and the emergence of his philosophical system to his troubling feelings for his fourteen-year-old Latin teacher Clara Maria van den Enden and later his disciple Johannes Casearius. From this conversation there emerges a compelling and complex portrait of the life of an idea—and of a man who tries to live that idea.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: June 28, 2006
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