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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
A Book Forged in Hell Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
Author: Steven Nadler
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its autho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691139890
ISBN-10: 069113989X
Publication Date: 10/5/2011
Pages: 304
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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