MARRANISM AS JUDAISM AS UNIVERSALISM: RECONSIDERING SPINOZA

Marranism as Judaism as Universalism: Reconsidering Spinoza

This essay seeks to reconsider the relation of the universal-rational ethos of Spinoza’s thought to the Jewish tradition and culture in which he was raised and socially situated.In particular, I seek to engage with two previous portrayals—specifically, those of Isaac Deutscher and Yirmiyahu Yovel—that present Spinoza’s unive

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