“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
“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
