Curley, Edwin:
Spinoza's Lost Defense

In: The Young Spinoza : A Metaphysician in the Making  / Ed. by Yitzhak Y. Melamed. - Oxford [e.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2015: [9]-32.

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Biography, Spinoza and Judaism / Jewish philosophy
Subject: KV, TTP
Subject (individuals): Hallmann, Georg Gottlieb; Lucas, Jean Maximilien; Menasseh/Menasse ben Israel; Morteira, Saul Levi; Revah, I. S.; Van Till, Salomon

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: Examines the diverse sources about an early, but lost apology of Spinoza on his being excommunicated from the synagoge, resulting in the judgement that they "give us reason to believe that they were not far from the truth." (p. 32).

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