Seeskin, Kenneth. “Recent Work on Spinoza.” Jewish Quarterly Review 98, no. 4 (2008): 553–558.

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“More than any other thinker of his time, Spinoza continues to interest philosophers. This may be related to his variety of guises. There is Spinoza the atheist and Spinoza the “God intoxicated” philosopher so much loved by German Romantics; Spinoza the renegade Jew who preferred Jesus to Moses and Spinoza the precursor to political Zionism; Spinoza the defender of liberal democracy and Spinoza the proponent of “might makes right.” Each of these guises appears in the books under review, and each makes its claim on our attention.”

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