spinoza

In search of the original Spinoza

For many, Spinoza is iconic, a “secular saint,” combining his herculean efforts to understand the world by methodical reasoning with the humble life.

By THOMAS SIMON
29/07/2020
Protesters wearing overalls daubed with red paint on genital area demonstrate against circumcision

The rite of circumcision

'The remarkable capacity of the Jewish nation to outlive all its enemies may quite well be the result of this small physical intervention.'

‘EXPULSION OF the Jews in 1497,’ a 1917 watercolor by Alfredo Roque Gameiro.

The persistent survival of Jewish hopes

Simon Schama reveals some basic truths of Jewish history.

By ELAINE MARGOLIN
15/11/2017
page from Prof. Steve Nadler’s book depicts the 1656 ban against the 17th-century philosopher Baruch

What would Spinoza say?

Philosophy and comics team up to tell the story of one 17th-century thinker who, though despised in his own time, may be an antidote for today's ills.

By TERRANCE MINTNER
05/09/2017
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