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Table of contents :
Cover
Spinoza, Life and Legacy
Copyright
Preface
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
PART I. SETTING THE SCENE
1. Introduction
2. Unparalleled Challenge
2.i Philosophy that Survived by a Thread
2.ii Banning Spinoza’s Books and Ideas
2.iii Spinoza and Europe’s Late Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Crisis
PART II. THE YOUNG SPINOZA
3. Youthful Rebel
3.i Caution and Audacity
3.ii Heretical Opinions
3.iii Expulsion from the Synagogue
4. A Secret Legacy from Portugal
4.i Crypto-Judaism and Religious Subversion
4.ii Vidigueira
4.iii Spinoza’s Mother’s Family
4.iv Absolutism Enthroned
4.v Exiles Fleeing Portugal
4.vi Revolutionary Subversion by Means of Philosophy
5. Childhood and Family Tradition
5.i From Brit Milah to Bar Mitzvah (1632–1645)
5.ii Spinoza’s Forebears, the Mechanics of Community Leadership
5.iii The Sephardic Cemetery at Ouderkerk
5.iv The Spinozas of Amsterdam and Rotterdam
6. Schooldays
6.i Ets Haim
6.ii Uriel da Costa
6.iii World Events Viewed from School
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