The Courtier and the Heretic: The Secret Encounter Between Leibniz and Spinoza That Defines the Modern World: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World

by Matthew Stewart (Author), Matthew Stewart (Author)

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  2007

  $36.11

  Philosophy in the late 17th century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive philosopher Baruch de Spinoza. Gottfried Leibniz became obsessed with Spinoza's writings and called on Spinoza in person at his home. This work is a philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy.