Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is the author of "Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel" and of six works of fiction, including "The Mind-Body Problem, Mazel, " and "Properties of Light." A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has received many awards for her fiction and scholarship, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She lives in Massachusetts.
"Beautifully crafted. What seem like separate issues--Spinoza's
pioneering advocacy of complete freedom of thought in religious
matters; the turmoil in the Jewish community; the fateful events in
Amsterdam in the closing years of Spinoza's life; the philosophical
developments of the seventeenth century; Spinoza's idea of a
philosophical religion utterly purged of all anthropomorphism, even
to the extent of denying that God is a 'person' in any sense--come
together as if by themselves (the sure sign of a fine artist!) to
answer my puzzle: how to understand Spinoza the human being, a man
for whom reason itself was a kind of salvation."
--Hilary Putnam, New York Observer "From the Trade Paperback
edition."
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