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- catalog abstract ""At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four?" "In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality: there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong issue to pick on in Amsterdam in the 1650s." "After considering the nature of the ban, or cherem, as a disciplinary tool in the Sephardic community, and a number of possible explanations for Spinoza's ban, Nadler turns to the variety of traditions in Jewish religious thought on the postmortem fate of a person's soul. This is followed by an examination of Spinoza's own views on the eternity of the mind and the role that the denial of personal immortality plays in this overall philosophical project. Nadler argues that Spinoza's beliefs were not only an outgrowth of his own metaphysical principles, but also a culmination of an intellectualist trend in Jewish rationalism."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12380326.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four?" "In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality: there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong issue to pick on in Amsterdam in the 1650s." "After considering the nature of the ban, or cherem, as a disciplinary tool in the Sephardic community, and a number of possible explanations for Spinoza's ban, Nadler turns to the variety of traditions in Jewish religious thought on the postmortem fate of a person's soul. This is followed by an examination of Spinoza's own views on the eternity of the mind and the role that the denial of personal immortality plays in this overall philosophical project. Nadler argues that Spinoza's beliefs were not only an outgrowth of his own metaphysical principles, but also a culmination of an intellectualist trend in Jewish rationalism."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Cherem in Amsterdam -- Abominations and heresies -- Patriarchs, prophets, and rabbis -- The philosophers -- Eternity and immortality -- The life of reason -- Immortality on the Amstel.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-222) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 225 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0199247072".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "199/.492 21".
- catalog subject "B3999.I4 N33 2002".
- catalog subject "Future life Judaism.".
- catalog subject "Immortality Judaism.".
- catalog subject "Jewish philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Jewish.".
- catalog subject "Philosophy, Medieval.".
- catalog subject "Portugees-Israëlietische Gemeente te Amsterdam Membership.".
- catalog subject "Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 Religion.".
- catalog subject "Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 Views on immortality.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Cherem in Amsterdam -- Abominations and heresies -- Patriarchs, prophets, and rabbis -- The philosophers -- Eternity and immortality -- The life of reason -- Immortality on the Amstel.".
- catalog title "Spinoza's heresy : immortality and the Jewish mind / Steven Nadler.".
- catalog type "text".