Yovel, Yirmiahu. Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Adventures of Immanence. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992.

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“This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity–and examines the question of whether he was the “first secular Jew.” A number-one bestseller in Israel, Spinoza and Other Heretics is made up of two volumes–The Marrano of Reason and The Adventures of Immanence. Yirmiyahu Yovel shows how Spinoza grounded a philosophical revolution in a radically new principle–the philosophy of immanence, or the idea that this world is all there is–and how he thereby anticipated secularization, the Enlightenment, the disintegration of ghetto life, and the rise of natural science and the liberal-democratic state.”

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