Baruch Spinoza and the Art of Thinking in Dangerous Times

"… it is Spinoza's dedication to freedom of thought—what he called libertas philosophandi—that makes him a thinker for our moment. In his new book, "Spinoza: Freedom's Messiah," a short biography in Yale University Press's Jewish Lives series, Ian Buruma observes that 'intellectual freedom has once again become an important issue, even in countries, such as the United States, that pride themselves on being uniquely free.'"

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