Spinoza, Life and Legacy - Israel, Prof Jonathan I. (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, examining the man's life, relationships, career, and writings, while forcing us to rethink how we previously understood his reception in the fields of philosophy, religion, ethics, and political theory in his own time and in the years following his death.