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The Excommunicant

Richard Popkin

  • The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study by Richard Mason
  • Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity by Steven Smith

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Richard Popkin’s revised and expanded History of Scepticism from Savonarola to Pierre Bayle is due from Oxford this year. His piece was written with the assistance of Stephanie Chasin.

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