{"product_id":"spinoza-life-and-legacy-9780198857488","title":"Spinoza  Life and Legacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers  Spinoza  which examines the mans life  relationships  writings  and career  while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinozas reception in his own time and in the years following his death.  The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers  Spinoza  had a much greater  if often concealed  impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers  historians  and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza  the man and his work  in the years immediately after his death in 1677  dominated much of his early reception owing to the revolutionary implications of his thought for philosophy  religion  practical ethics and lifestyle  Bible criticism  and political theory. Nevertheless  contrary to what has sometimes been maintained  his general impact was immediate  very widespread  and profound. One of the main objectives of the book is to show how early and how deeply Leibniz  Bayle  Arnauld  Henry More  Anne Conway  Richard Baxter  Robert Boyle  Henry Oldenburg  Pierre-Daniel Huet  Richard Simon  and Nicholas Steno  among many others  were affected by and led to wrestle with his principal ideas.  There have been surprisingly few biographies of Spinoza  given his fundamental importance in intellectual history and history of philosophy  Bible criticism  and political thought. Jonathan I. Israel has written a biography which provides more detail and context about Spinozas life  family  writings  circle of friends  highly unusual career and networking  and early reception than its predecessors. Weaving the circumstances of his life and thought into a detailed biography has also led to several notable instances of nuancing or revising our notions of how to interpret certain of his assertions and philosophical claims  and how to understand the complex international reaction to his work during his life-time and in the years immediately following his death.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665915043893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0198857489","price":104.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780198857488.jpg?v=1782414142","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/spinoza-life-and-legacy-9780198857488","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}