Overview :From Pulitzer Prize finalist Steven Nadler, a fascinating historical and philosophical narrative that unravels the mystery of whether Spinoz... Read More
Overview :There is a popular and romantic myth about Rembrandt and the Jewish people. One of history's greatest artists, we are often told, had a spec... Read More
Overview :The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism comprises fifty specially written chapters on Rene Descartes (1596-1650) and Cartesianism,... Read More
Overview :Maimonides (Moshe/Moses ben Maimon, 1138-1204) was not only the dominant rabbinic and Jewish intellectual figure of the later medieval perio... Read More
Overview :An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century Menasseh ben Israel... Read More
Overview :Spinoza's Ethics is one of the most remarkable, important, and difficult books in the history of philosophy: a treatise simultaneously on me... Read More
Overview :The French philosopher and theologian Nicholas Malebranche was one of the most important thinkers of the early modern period. A bold and uno... Read More
Overview :A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was on... Read More
Overview :Three general accounts of causation stand out in early modern philosophy: Cartesian interactionism, occasionalism, and Leibniz's preestablis... Read More
Overview :From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions In 1656, after being e... Read More
Overview :An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thoughtThis entert... Read More
Overview :In the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Ren Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosophe... Read More
Overview :Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), a medical doctor who was an extremely import... Read More
Overview :Steven Nadler presents the first English translation of a seminal work in the history of early modern philosophy. Geraud de Cordemoy's Six D... Read More
Overview :When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless,... Read More
Overview :Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world... Read More
Overview :In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philos... Read More