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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

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When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality. Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired.--Page 4 of cover.


  • | Author: Steven Nadler
  • | Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • | Publication Date: November 24, 2013
  • | Number of Pages: 304 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 069116018X
  • | ISBN-13: 9780691160184
Author:
Steven Nadler
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
November 24, 2013
Number of pages:
304 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
069116018X
ISBN-13:
9780691160184