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SPINOZA Bento(Benedictus,Baruch)Spinoza(1632–77)wasoneofthemostimpor- tant philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and con- troversial. The story of Spinoza’s life takes the reader into the heart of JewishAmsterdamintheseventeenthcenturyand,withSpinoza’sexilefrom Judaism,intothemidstofthetumultuouspolitical,social,intellectual,and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. This new edition of Steven Nadler’s biography, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for biography andtranslatedintoadozenlanguages,isenhancedbyexcitingnewarchival discoveries about his family background, his youth, and the various philo- sophical,political,andreligiouscontextsofhislifeandworks.Thereismore detail about his family’s business and communal activities, about his rela- tionshipswithfriendsandcorrespondents,andaboutthedevelopmentofhis writings,whichcausedsuchscandalamonghiscontemporaries. steven nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy, Evjue- Bascom Professor in Humanities, and Weinstein-Bascom Professor of Jew- ish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is the author or editor of over twenty books, winner of the 2000 Koret Jewish Book Award forbiographywithSpinoza:ALife(1999)andaPulitzerPrizefinalistwith Rembrandt’s Jews (2003). His books have been translated into over twenty languages. Map of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Courtesy of the UniversityofWisconsin–MadisonCartographyLab. Spinoza A Life Second Edition Steven Nadler UniversityofWisconsin–Madison UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,ny10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,vic3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre,NewDelhi-110025,India 79AnsonRoad,#06-04/06,Singapore079906 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108425544 doi:10.1017/9781108635387 (cid:2)C CambridgeUniversityPress1999,StevenNadler2018 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished1999 Secondeditionpublished2018 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyTJInternationalLtd.PadstowCornwall AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn978-1-108-42554-4Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. formyfamily Contents ListofIllustrations pageix PrefacetotheSecondEdition xi PrefacetotheFirstEdition xiii Acknowledgments xvii 1 Settlement 1 2 AbrahamandMichael 32 3 Bento/Baruch 50 4 TalmudTorah 71 5 AMerchantofAmsterdam 92 6 H. erem 135 7 Benedictus 183 8 APhilosopherinRijnsburg 215 9 “TheJewofVoorburg” 239 10 HomoPoliticus 286 11 CalmandTurmoilinTheHague 334 12 “Afreemanthinksleastofallofdeath” 372 ANoteonSources 410 Bibliography 412 Index 427 Platescanbefoundbetweenpages238and239. vii
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