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Spinoza

The Outcast Thinker

by Devra Lehmann ...

Series series Philosophy for Young People
An entertaining and accessible introduction to the radical philosopher of freedom of thought and religion is the only biography of Spinoza for young adults.The second title in the Philosophy for Young People series.A brilliant schoolboy in 17th-century Amsterdam, Bento Spinoza -- formally Baruch and later Benedict de Spinoza -- quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is 23, those ... Read more

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An entertaining and accessible introduction to the radical philosopher of freedom of thought and religion is the only biography of Spinoza for young adults.The second title in the Philosophy for Young People series.A brilliant schoolboy in 17th-century Amsterdam, Bento Spinoza -- formally Baruch and later Benedict de Spinoza -- quickly learns to keep his ideas to himself. When he is 23, those
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Socrates

A Life Worth Living

by Devra Lehmann ...

Series series Philosophy for Young People
**A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.Named a Best Teen & YA Nonfiction title of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews**Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he ... Read more

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**A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.Named a Best Teen & YA Nonfiction title of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews**Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western Civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he
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Augustine of Hippo

The Longings of a Restless Heart

by Devra Lehmann ...

Series series Philosophy for Young People
**An immersive YA biography and introduction to the bold and deeply influential life of Augustine of Hippo.The philosophy of this thinker from the waning years of the Roman Empire has guided Western thought for nearly two thousand years.**“Suddenly every vain hope became empty to me, and I longed for the immortality of wisdom with an incredible ardour in my heart.” —Augustine of HippoIn a time ... Read more

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**An immersive YA biography and introduction to the bold and deeply influential life of Augustine of Hippo.The philosophy of this thinker from the waning years of the Roman Empire has guided Western thought for nearly two thousand years.**“Suddenly every vain hope became empty to me, and I longed for the immortality of wisdom with an incredible ardour in my heart.” —Augustine of HippoIn a time
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Augustine of Hippo

The Longings of a Restless Heart

by Devra Lehmann ...

Series series Philosophy for Young People
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**An immersive YA biography and introduction to the bold and deeply influential life of Augustine of Hippo.The philosophy of this thinker from the waning years of the Roman Empire has guided Western thought for nearly two thousand years.**“Suddenly every vain hope became empty to me, and I longed for the immortality of wisdom with an incredible ardour in my heart.” —Augustine of HippoIn a time ... Read more

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**An immersive YA biography and introduction to the bold and deeply influential life of Augustine of Hippo.The philosophy of this thinker from the waning years of the Roman Empire has guided Western thought for nearly two thousand years.**“Suddenly every vain hope became empty to me, and I longed for the immortality of wisdom with an incredible ardour in my heart.” —Augustine of HippoIn a time
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Spinoza

The Outcast Thinker

by Devra Lehmann ...

Narrated by Erin Bennett ...

Series series PHILOSOPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Unabridged

6 hours

An entertaining and accessible introduction to the radical philosopher of freedom of thought and religion is the only biography of Spinoza for young adults.The second title in the Philosophy for Young People series.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureA Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books"Clarity, accessibility and spot-on relevance to issues fac... ... Read more

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An entertaining and accessible introduction to the radical philosopher of freedom of thought and religion is the only biography of Spinoza for young adults.The second title in the Philosophy for Young People series.Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Children's and Young Adult LiteratureA Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Books"Clarity, accessibility and spot-on relevance to issues fac...
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Socrates

A Life Worth Living

by Devra Lehmann ...

Narrated by Robert Petkoff ...

Series series PHILOSOPHY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Unabridged

6 hours 35 min

A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of ... Read more

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A lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.Socrates: A Life Worth Living traces the life and ideas of one of Western civilization’s founding philosophers, whose influence is still felt more than two thousand years later. Socrates is famous for how he died, executed by the Athenian government for corrupting the youth of
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Constantine's Sword

The Church and the Jews, A History

by James Carroll ...

The "monumental" New York Times bestseller in which a Catholic explores the problem of anti-Semitism through Church history ( The Washington Post).A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable BookIn this "masterly history" ( Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism ... Read more

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The "monumental" New York Times bestseller in which a Catholic explores the problem of anti-Semitism through Church history ( The Washington Post).A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Notable BookIn this "masterly history" ( Time), National Book Award-winning author James Carroll maps the profoundly troubling two-thousand-year course of the Church's battle against Judaism
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Betraying Spinoza

The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

by Rebecca Goldstein ...

Series series Jewish Encounters Series
Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its ... Read more

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Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesIn 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its
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The Shipwrecked Mind

On Political Reaction

by Mark Lilla ...

Covering centuries of thought and politics, this collection of essays “offers a fascinating framework for making sense of our contemporary political landscape” (Vox).“Skillfully untangles the apocalyptic ‘mytho-histories,’ ‘just-so narratives,’ and ‘political bedtime stories’ favored by the modern right, in Europe and America.” —The New YorkerWe don’t understand the reactionary mind. In this ... Read more

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Covering centuries of thought and politics, this collection of essays “offers a fascinating framework for making sense of our contemporary political landscape” (Vox).“Skillfully untangles the apocalyptic ‘mytho-histories,’ ‘just-so narratives,’ and ‘political bedtime stories’ favored by the modern right, in Europe and America.” —The New YorkerWe don’t understand the reactionary mind. In this
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A Book Forged in Hell

Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age

by 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 author was almost universally regarded as a religious ... Read more

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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 author was almost universally regarded as a religious
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer's "Letters and Papers from Prison"

A Biography

by Martin E Marty ...

Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler ... Read more

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For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed at age thirty-nine, just a month before the German surrender, for his role in the plot to kill Hitler
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Evil in Modern Thought

An Alternative History of Philosophy

by Susan Neiman, Susan Neiman ...

Series series Princeton Classics
A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the ... Read more

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A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the
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