“Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of the Enlightenment leaves him without a story of the Enlightenment's intellectual or cultural origins. Every historian has to… — Samuel Moyn Copy Share Image
“It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.” — Samuel Moyn Copy Share Image
“Israel's monomaniacal Spinoza worship is amusing and exasperating by turns. For a start, his insistence that Spinoza was the singular font of the Enlightenment… — Samuel Moyn Copy Share Image
“It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its… — Samuel Moyn Copy Share Image
