Libros de Steven Nadler

Un Libro Fraguado En El Infierno

• 344 páginas
• Este ensayo de Steven Nadler no es solo una introducción filosófica al «Tractatus Theologico-politicus» (1670) de Baruj Spinoza. También narra la génesis de este escandaloso Tratado «fraguado en el infierno&ra...

Spinoza

• 448 páginas

Oxford Handbook Of Descartes And Cartesianism

• The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism, the dominant paradigm for philosophy and science in the seventeenth century, written by an international group...

Menasseh Ben Israel: Rabbi Of Amsterdam

• An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in..

Think Least Of Death

• 248 páginas
• "The seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza has long been known--and vilified--for his heretical view of God and for the radical determinism he sees governing the cosmos and human freedom. Only recently, however, has he begun...

Spinoza

• Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one..

Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings Of Modern Philosophy

• 192 páginas
• This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority-sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death-to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science...

The Philosopher, The Priest, And The Painter: A Portrait Of Descartes

• In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the

Spinoza And Medieval Jewish Philosophy

The Philosopher, The Priest, And The Painter: A Portrait Of Descartes

• 230 páginas
• In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of René Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And the painter of the work? The Dutch master Frans Hals--or so it was long believed, until the...

Rembrandt's Jews

• 250 páginas
• There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and...

Occasionalism

• 230 páginas
• Steven Nadler presents a collection of essays on the problem of causation in seventeenth-century philosophy. Occasionalism is the doctrine, held by a number of early modern Cartesian thinkers, that created substances are devoid of any true causal powers,...

A Book Forged In Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise And The Birth Of The Secular Age

• 279 páginas
• 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...

The Best Of All Possible Worlds

• 320 páginas
• In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The meeting of these three men...

The Cambridge History Of Jewish Philosophy

• 984 páginas
• The first volume in this comprehensive work is an exploration of the history of Jewish philosophy from its beginnings in antiquity to the early modern period, with a particular emphasis on medieval Jewish thought. Unlike most histories, encyclopedias,...

Oxford Studies In Early Modern Philosophy, Volume Iv

Rabbinic Culture And Its Critics

• 480 páginas
• The influential leaders, institutions, and texts that make up rabbinic culture have held a central place in Judaism since the Middle Ages and have given Jewish cultures across the world remarkably uniform systems of law and doctrines into the modern perio...

Spinoza’s Ethics

• 300 páginas
• Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on metaphysics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. It presents, in...

Spinoza’s Heresy ’ Immortality And The Jewish Mind ’

• 225 páginas
• 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-centur...

The Cambridge Companion To Malebranche

• The French philosopher and theologian Nicholas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers..