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  • Rembrandt's Jews

    by Steven Nadler ...
    "A fascinating moment in both the history of Jewish-Christian relations and the history of art." —Michael Zell, author of Reframing RembrandtA Pulitzer Prize FinalistThere 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 ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spinoza, Atheist

    by Steven Nadler ...
    From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, a fascinating historical and philosophical narrative that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoza was an atheistIn 1656, a young Amsterdam merchant was excommunicated by his Portuguese-Jewish community in the harshest terms it had ever used. Baruch Spinoza was accused of unspecified “horrifying heresies,” but the precise reasons for his expulsion remain ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spinozaland

    A Philosophical Journey

    by Steven Nadler ...
    Spinoza’s enduring legacy in a world still grappling with questions of freedom, tolerance, religion, and democracy.Centuries after his death, Baruch Spinoza’s life and thought continue to raise questions and stir controversy. Why were he and his works banned by the Amsterdam Jewish community? Why was he idolized by Yiddish anarchists in New York in the early twentieth century? Who tried to ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • The Best of All Possible Worlds

    A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

    by Steven Nadler ...
    "I can't imagine a better guide to 17th-century philosophical thought. . . . [It] is written simply and clearly." — Washington PostIn the spring of 1672, the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris on a furtive diplomatic mission. That project was abandoned quickly, but Leibniz remained in Paris with a singular goal: to get the most out of the city's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Book Forged in Hell

    Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

    by Steven Nadler ...
    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 and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Spinoza

    A Life

    by Steven Nadler ...
    Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual, and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Menasseh ben Israel

    Rabbi of Amsterdam

    by Steven Nadler ...
    Series series Jewish Lives
    An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth centuryMenasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the “Portuguese Nation” in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Why Read Maimonides Today?

    by Steven Nadler ...
    Series series Why Read Them Today
    Maimonides (Moshe/Moses ben Maimon, 1138–1204) was not only the dominant rabbinic and Jewish intellectual figure of the later medieval period, but also one of history's greatest philosophers. As the author of the Mishneh Torah (ca. 1180), a compendium and systematization of the Jewish legal code, he remains an unsurpassed (if not uncontroversial) authority on halakha (Jewish law). His ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • Spinoza

    A Life

    by Steven Nadler ...
    Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also arguably the most radical and controversial. This was the first complete biography of Spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research. More than simply recounting the story of Spinoza's life, the book takes the reader right into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century ... Read more

    $36.79 CAD

  • Think Least of Death

    Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die

    by Steven Nadler ...
    From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questionsIn 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam’s Portuguese-Jewish community for “abominable heresies” and “monstrous deeds,” the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family’s import business to dedicate his life to philosophy. He quickly became notorious across Europe for his ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter

    A Portrait of Descartes

    by Steven Nadler ...
    How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of René DescartesIn 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 work was downgraded to a copy of an original. But where is the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Cartesian

    Louis de La Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm

    by Steven Nadler ...
    Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), a medical doctor who was an extremely important, but for a long time relatively neglected, follower of Descartes in the seventeenth century. His sophisticated contributions to the metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and physiology of Cartesianism in the decades after Descartes' death in 1650 were ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD