Spinoza: The Outcast Thinker - Softcover

Lehmann, Devra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608981819 ISBN 13: 9781608981816

Publisher: namelos, 2014

Synopsis

A brilliant schoolboy in seventeenth-century Amsterdam quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is twenty-three, those ideas prove so scandalous to his religious community that he is cast out, cursed, and effectively erased from their communal life. The scandal shows no sign of waning as his ideas spread throughout Europe, where he is almost universally reviled as an instrument of the devil. At the center of the storm, he lives the simplest of lives, quietly devoted to his work as a lens grinder and to his steadfast search for truth—an endeavor that paves the way to all that is best in modern democracies. He does not live to see the results of his efforts, but his ideas change the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Devra Lehmann did her undergraduate work at Yale before earning an M.A. in English from Georgetown and a doctorate in Curriculum and Teaching from Columbia.  She has been a teacher and educational administrator for almost three decades. Ms. Lehmann is married and has four children.  This is her first book.

About this edition

• Publisher: namelos
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1608981819
• ISBN 13: 9781608981816
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 292