Salvation through Spinoza(English, Hardcover, Wertheim David)

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Salvation through Spinoza(English, Hardcover, Wertheim David) is written by Wertheim David and published by Brill. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 900420721X (ISBN 10) and 9789004207219 (ISBN 13).

Despite his reputation as a heretic, Baruch Spinoza was one of the major heroes of the Jewish cultural Renaissance in Weimar Germany. This study traces Weimar Jewry's infatuation with Spinoza as it was manifested in scholarship, the popular press, and novels. It tells of how Jews, who found themselves oscillating between the social pressures to both assimilate and remain authentic, sought refuge in a thinker who epitomized both the rationality and liberalism of the Weimar Republic's enlightened defenders as well as the mysticism of its neo-romanticist challengers. In recapturing this forgotten chapter in the history of Spinozism this book sheds an original light on Weimar Germany's reknown Jewish culture.