Affinities
George Steiner, 19 April 1990
Spinoza and Other Heretics. Vol. I: The Marrano of Reason
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 244 pp., $24.50, January 1990,0 691 07344 9 Show More
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 244 pp., $24.50, January 1990,
Spinoza and Other Heretics. Vol. II: The Adventures of Immanence
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 225 pp., £29.50, January 1990,0 691 07346 5 Show More
by Yirmiyahu Yovel.
Princeton, 225 pp., £29.50, January 1990,
“... apartness and reputed violence, of his truth-seeking takes on a romantic, mythical cast. Baruch Spinoza has been a perennial source of imagery or fable. Even those unacquainted with his writings know of a thinker of utmost purity, of utmost abstention from mundanity, who ground optical lenses for a precarious living. They will have some ... ”