I'd like to clarify my comment on the podcast about how the emphasis on rationality as it regards the afterlife is common to Maimonides and Spinoza. I'm looking here at a review by Martin Lin of Steven Nadler's book Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind. Now, Nadler is my go-to local Spinoza scholar--you can see him here and here--and he's the guy Seth was Continue Reading …
Spinoza Roundtable
Haven't had enough Spinoza? Watch a panel of Spinoza scholars weigh in via a two-hour Philoctetes Center roundtable. The video is configured so that I can't embed it here; check it out on youtube here: http://youtu.be/v29FVZ0rry8 The discussion is rambling and badly needs editing. The panelists all monologuize (worse than we do on the podcast) and (particularly near the Continue Reading …