| The Spinoza Problem Contributor(s): Yalom, Irvin D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465061850 ISBN-13: 9780465061853 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - World War Ii |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.75 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 1940's - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A haunting portrait of Arthur Rosenberg, one of Nazism's chief architects, and his obsession with one of history's most influential Jewish thinkers In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, whose philosophy led to his own excommunication from the Jewish community, alongside that of the rise and fall of the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, who two hundred years later during World War II ordered his task force to plunder Spinoza's ancient library in an effort to deal with the Nazis' Spinoza Problem. Seamlessly alternating between Golden Age Amsterdam and Nazi Germany, Yalom investigates the inner lives of these two enigmatic men in a tale of influence and anxiety, the origins of good and evil, and the philosophy of freedom and the tyranny of terror. |