This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the
most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity--and examines
the question of whether he was the "first secular Jew." A
number-one bestseller in Israel, "Spinoza and Other Heretics" is
made up of two volumes--The Marrano of Reason and The Adventures of
Immanence. Yirmiyahu Yovel shows how Spinoza grounded a
philosophical revolution in a radically new principlethe philosophy
of immanence, or the idea that this world is all there is--and how
he thereby anticipated secularization, the Enlightenment, the
disintegration of ghetto life, and the rise of natural science and
the liberal-democratic state.
The Adventures of Immanence
Here Yovel discloses the presence of Spinoza's philosophical
revolution in the work of later thinkers who helped shape the
modern mind. He claims it is no accident that some of the most
unorthodox and innovative figures in the past two
centuries--including Goethe, Kant, Hegel, Heine, Marx, Nietzsche,
Freud, and Einstein--were profoundly influenced by Spinoza and
shared his view that immanent reality is the only source of valid
social and political norms and that recognizing this fact is
necessary for human liberation.
But what is immanent reality, and how is liberation to be
construed? In a work that constitutes a retelling of much of
Western intellectual history, Yovel analyzes the rival answers
given to these questions and, in so doing, provides a fresh view of
a wide range of individual thinkers.
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