The Spinoza Miracle

Fayard, November 2017
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EAN: 9782213700700

Digital EAN: 9782213700045

Le Livre de Poche, August 2019
EAN: 978-2253091936

Presentation

Banished from the Jewish community at the age of 23 for heresy, Baruch Spinoza decided to dedicate his life to philosophy. His goal? To discover a true good that would "provide him, for eternity, with the enjoyment of supreme and unceasing joy." During the twenty years he had left to live, Spinoza built a revolutionary body of work. How could this man, in the heart of the 17th century, have been 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 founded on desire and joy, which revolutionizes our understanding of God, morality, and happiness?
In many respects, Spinoza was not only far ahead of his time, but also of our own. This is what I call the "Spinoza miracle."

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