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Spinoza's Heresy

Immortality and the Jewish Mind

By: Steven M. Nadler

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Spinoza's Heresy

Immortality and the Jewish Mind

By: Steven M. Nadler

At the heart of Spinoza's Heresy is a mystery: why was Baruch Spinoza so harshly excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community at the age of twenty-four? In this philosophical sequel to his acclaimed, award-winning biography of the seventeenth-century thinker, Steven Nadler argues that Spinoza's main offence was a denial of the immortality of the soul. But this only deepens the mystery. For there is no specific Jewish dogma regarding immortality: there is nothing that a Jew is required to believe about the soul and the afterlife. It was, however, for various religious, historical and political reasons, simply the wrong issue to pick on in Amsterdam in the 1650s. After considering the nature of the ban, or cherem, as a disciplinary tool in the Sephardic community, and a number of possible explanations for Spinoza's ban, Nadler turns to the variety of traditions in Jewish religious thought on the postmortem fate of a person's soul. This is followed by an examination of Spinoza's own views on the eternity of the mind and the role that that the denial of personal immortality plays in his overall philosophical project. Nadler argues that Spinoza's beliefs were not only an outgrowth of his own metaphysical principles, but also a culmination of an intellectualist trend in Jewish rationalism.

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0199247072

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Spinoza

A Life

By: Steven M. Nadler

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Spinoza

A Life

By: Steven M. Nadler

A fully updated new edition of the prize-winning and now standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza.

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Cambridge University Press

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A Book Forged in Hell

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

By: Steven Nadler

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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. Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality. Yet Spinoza's book has contributed as much as the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Paine's Common Sense to modern liberal, secular, and democratic thinking. In A Book Forged in Hell, Steven Nadler tells the fascinating story of this extraordinary book: its radical claims and their background in the philosophical, religious, and political tensions of the Dutch Golden Age, as well as the vitriolic reaction these ideas inspired."--Page 4 of cover.

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069116018X

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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter

A Portrait of Descartes

By: Steven M. Nadler

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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter

A Portrait of Descartes

By: Steven M. Nadler

A unique combination of philosophy, biography, and art history. The philospher, the priest, and the painter investigates the remarkable individuals and the circumstances behind a small portrait.

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Princeton University Press

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0691157308

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The Good Cartesian

Louis de la Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm

By: Steven Nadler,William F Vilas Research Professor and the William H Hay II Professor of Philosophy Steven Nadler

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The Good Cartesian

Louis de la Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm

By: Steven Nadler,William F Vilas Research Professor and the William H Hay II Professor of Philosophy Steven Nadler

Steven Nadler presents a biographical and philosophical study of Louis de La Forge (1632-1666), an important but underappreciated (and understudied) follower of René Descartes (1596-1650) who made a major contribution to making Cartesianism the dominant philosophical paradigm of the seventeenth century. La Forge was a devoted and faithful, but not uncritical, disciple who defended, updated, and even corrected Descartes' metaphysics, physics, and physiology, both to move Cartesian system to greater internal coherence and to make it more consistent with the latest scientific developments.

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Oxford University Press

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0197671713

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Menasseh ben Israel

Rabbi of Amsterdam

By: Steven M. Nadler

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Menasseh ben Israel

Rabbi of Amsterdam

By: Steven M. Nadler

An illuminating biography of the great Amsterdam rabbi and celebrated popularizer of Judaism in the seventeenth century Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657) was among the most accomplished and cosmopolitan rabbis of his time, and a pivotal intellectual figure in early modern Jewish history. He was one of the three rabbis of the “Portuguese Nation” in Amsterdam, a community that quickly earned renown worldwide for its mercantile and scholarly vitality. Born in Lisbon, Menasseh and his family were forcibly converted to Catholicism but suspected of insincerity in their new faith. To avoid the horrors of the Inquisition, they fled first to southwestern France, and then to Amsterdam, where they finally settled. Menasseh played an important role during the formative decades of one of the most vital Jewish communities of early modern Europe, and was influential through his extraordinary work as a printer and his efforts on behalf of the readmission of Jews to England. In this lively biography, Steven Nadler provides a fresh perspective on this seminal figure.

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Yale University Press

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0300224109

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

By: Steven M. Nadler

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

By: Steven M. Nadler

In this lively and engaging book, Nadler brings to life a debate between three brilliant and resolute philosophers in 1672 Paris that had obsessed its participants, captivated European intellectuals, and continues to inform our ways of thinking about God, morality, and the world.

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Macmillan

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0374229988

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The Good Cartesian

Louis de la Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm

By: Steven Nadler,William F Vilas Research Professor and the William H Hay II Professor of Philosophy Steven Nadler

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Louis de la Forge and the Rise of a Philosophical Paradigm

By: Steven Nadler,William F Vilas Research Professor and the William H Hay II Professor of Philosophy Steven Nadler

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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter

A Portrait of Descartes

By: Steven M. Nadler

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A Portrait of Descartes

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A unique combination of philosophy, biography, and art history. The philospher, the priest, and the painter investigates the remarkable individuals and the circumstances behind a small portrait.

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Spinoza

A Life

By: Steven M. Nadler

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A Life

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A fully updated new edition of the prize-winning and now standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza.

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Cambridge University Press

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Rembrandt's Jews

By: Steven M. Nadler

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Rembrandt's Jews

By: Steven M. Nadler

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 special affinity for Judaism. With so many of Rembrandt's works devoted to stories of the Hebrew Bible, and with his apparent penchant for Jewish themes and the sympathetic portrayal of Jewish faces, it is no wonder that the myth has endured for centuries. Rembrandt's Jews puts this myth to the test as it examines both the legend and the reality of Rembrandt's relationship to Jews and Judaism. In his elegantly written and engrossing tour of Jewish Amsterdam—which begins in 1653 as workers are repairing Rembrandt's Portuguese-Jewish neighbor's house and completely disrupting the artist's life and livelihood—Steven Nadler tells us the stories of the artist's portraits of Jewish sitters, of his mundane and often contentious dealings with his neighbors in the Jewish quarter of Amsterdam, and of the tolerant setting that city provided for Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews fleeing persecution in other parts of Europe. As Nadler shows, Rembrandt was only one of a number of prominent seventeenth-century Dutch painters and draftsmen who found inspiration in Jewish subjects. Looking at other artists, such as the landscape painter Jacob van Ruisdael and Emmanuel de Witte, a celebrated painter of architectural interiors, Nadler is able to build a deep and complex account of the remarkable relationship between Dutch and Jewish cultures in the period, evidenced in the dispassionate, even ordinary ways in which Jews and their religion are represented—far from the demonization and grotesque caricatures, the iconography of the outsider, so often found in depictions of Jews during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Through his close look at paintings, etchings, and drawings; in his discussion of intellectual and social life during the Dutch Golden Age; and even through his own travels in pursuit of his subject, Nadler takes the reader through Jewish Amsterdam then and now—a trip that, under ever-threatening Dutch skies, is full of colorful and eccentric personalities, fiery debates, and magnificent art.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226567370

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Spinoza's Heresy

Immortality and the Jewish Mind

By: Steven M. Nadler

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Immortality and the Jewish Mind

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Oxford University Press

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Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society

By: Steven M. DeLue,Timothy M. Dale

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Political Thinking, Political Theory, and Civil Society

By: Steven M. DeLue,Timothy M. Dale

This comprehensive overview of the Western tradition of political thought approaches concepts with the aim of helping readers develop their own political thinking and critical thinking skills. This text is uniquely organized around the theme of civil society — what is the nature of a civil society? why is it important? — that will engage students and help make the material relevant. Major thinkers discussed in the text are explored not only with the goal of understanding their views, but also with an interest in understanding the relationship of their ideas to the notion of a civil society. DeLue and Dale contend that a civil society is important for securing the way of life that most of us value and want to preserve, a way of life that allows people to live freely and place significance on their own lives. New to the Fourth Edition Connects traditional political theory to contemporary challenges to civil society including new coverage of US electoral politics, the Black Lives Matter movement, Citizens United, and Robert Putnam’s view of the decline of social support systems. Updates the coverage of feminism and feminist thinkers, including coverage of gay marriage, in the context of civil society. Expands coverage of global civil society, especially in terms of contemporary challenges posed by ISIS, the failure of the Arab Spring, and ongoing humanitarian crises in Syria, Iran, and beyond.

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Routledge

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1317243668

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Decision-Making Groups and Teams

An Information Exchange Perspective

By: Steven Silver

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Decision-Making Groups and Teams

An Information Exchange Perspective

By: Steven Silver

In recent years, there has been increasing implementation of group and team decision-making within organizations, much of it managed electronically, between members of what are "virtual" groups or teams. Recent research into effective team implementation emphasizes "trust" as an intermediary process, and trust must be a part of any account of team decision-making. This book provides an integrated framework that represents process in decision-making by interactive groups and teams. This framework furthers both our understanding of process and our capabilities in implementation, based on an account of group decision-making that differentiates the information types contributing to decision quality and relates them to process in interactive groups and teams. Author Steve Silver emphasizes the social structure that is inherent in the interaction of decision-makers as group or team members and effects on the information they exchange.

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1135014809

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Nonprescription Product Therapeutics

By: W. Steven Pray

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Nonprescription Product Therapeutics

By: W. Steven Pray

When it comes to helping customers make wiser and safer choices in their use of over-the-counter treatments, the pharmacist's best source of information is Nonprescription Product Therapeutics. This text emphasizes the pharmacist's role in triage--assessing the best nonprescription products for a client and knowing when medical conditions warrant a referral to another health professional. Organized by condition rather than by drug, the text is easy to consult, and complements a disease-based approach to therapeutics. Pharmacists will find useful information on ingredients, interactions, contraindications, and other essentials for helping customers choose appropriate nonprescription products. The Second Edition contains additional charts, drawings, illustrations, and tables. The book includes decision-making algorithms, case studies, patient counseling tips, and warnings on dangerous or life-threatening ingredients, actions, or situations. Another unique feature of this text is A Pharmacist's Journal--real-life reports from the front lines by an award-winning professor and researcher with over twenty years of experience in retail community pharmacy.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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0781734983

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9780781734981

Brownstone Diploma for Windows to Accompany Canadian Organizational Behaviour

By: Steven Lattimore McShane,Brownstone Research Group

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Brownstone Diploma for Windows to Accompany Canadian Organizational Behaviour

By: Steven Lattimore McShane,Brownstone Research Group

The #1 Canadian and only 100% Canadian-authored Organizational Behaviour text has been thoroughly updated and finely tuned to reflect the continuous changes Canadian organizations face in today's business world. There's a revolution going on in the workplace. Knowledge is replacing infrastructure. Self-leadership is replacing direct supervision. Networks are replacing hierarchies. Virtual teams are replacing committees. Companies are looking for employees with emotional intelligence, not just technical smarts. Globalization has become the mantra of corporate survival. Co-workers aren't just down the hall; they're at the other end of an Internet connection. Canadian Organizational Behaviour (COB) is written with this revolution in mind

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[Whitby, Ont.] : McGraw-Hill Ryerson

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0070871809

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OB in Action

Cases and Exercises

By: Steven B. Wolff,Janet W. Wohlberg

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OB in Action

Cases and Exercises

By: Steven B. Wolff,Janet W. Wohlberg

This entertaining, hands-on approach to OB provides a supplement to introductory or graduate level courses, proprietary programs, and business training courses. Every case and exercise has been developed with one or more theories of organizational behavior in mind. Exercises introduce students to the broad range of answers and opinions that are valid responses to problems.

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0618056505

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9780618056507

Social Change

By: Steven Vago

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Social Change

By: Steven Vago

A timely and comprehensive social analysis of one of the most important social concerns of our time, this fifth edition of Social Change greatly increases the contemporary multicultural and international components, yet retains its pedagogically sound features and proven organizational framework. It provides a readable and up-to-date analysis of the major theoretical perspectives, sources, processes, patterns, and consequences of social change. The author also incorporates empirical works from anthropology, social psychology, economics, political science, and history.

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Prentice Hall

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0131115561

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

By: Steven M. Nadler

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The Best of All Possible Worlds

A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil

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