The Spinoza Miracle

Fayard, November 2017
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EAN: 9782213700700

Digital EAN: 9782213700045

The Pocket Book, August 2019
EAN: 978-2253091936

Presentation

Banished from the Jewish community at the age of 23 for heresy, Baruch Spinoza decided to devote his life to philosophy. His goal? To discover a true good that would "give him for eternity the enjoyment of a supreme and incessant joy." In the twenty years that remained to his life, Spinoza built a revolutionary body of work. How could this man, in the middle of the 17th century, be the precursor of the Enlightenment and our modern democracies? The pioneer of a historical and critical reading of the Bible? The founder of depth psychology? The initiator of philology, sociology, and ethology? And above all, the inventor of a philosophy based on desire and joy, which overturns our conception of God, morality, and happiness?
In many ways, Spinoza was not only far ahead of his time, but also of ours. This is what I call the "Spinoza miracle."

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