{"product_id":"9781472596444","title":"Spinoza: The Ethics of an Outlaw","description":"Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the  tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th  century, his work has aroused some of the fiercest and most intense  polemics in the discipline. From his expulsion from the synagogue and  onwards, Spinoza has never ceased to embody the secular, heretical and  self-loathing Jew. Ivan Segré, a philosopher and celebrated scholar of  the Talmud, discloses the conservative underpinnings that have animated  Spinoza's numerable critics and antagonists.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eThrough a close  reading of Leo Strauss and  several contemporary Jewish thinkers, such  as Jean-Claude Milner and  Benny Levy (Sartre's last secretary), \u003ci\u003eSpinoza: the Ethics of an Outlaw\u003c\/i\u003e  aptly delineates the common cause of Spinoza's contemporary censors: an   explicit hatred of reason and its emancipatory potential. Spinoza's  radical heresy lies in his rejection of any and all blind adherence to  Biblical Law, and in his plea for the freedom and autonomy of thought.  Segré reclaims Spinoza as a faithful interpreter of the revolutionary  potential contained within the Old Testament.","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129604292848,"sku":"9781472596444","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781472596444_p0.jpg?v=1763598864","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781472596444","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}