32. Spinoza's Reception and Relevance | Dr. Daniel Schwartz

J.J. and Dr. Daniel Schwartz examine the convoluted legacy and enduring relevance of Spinoza.

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Daniel B. Schwartz is a professor of modern Jewish European and American intellectual and cultural history at George Washington University in Washington, DC. He is the author of two monographs: The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image (Princeton, 2012), which was a co-winner of the 2012 Salo W. Baron Prize awarded annually by the American Academy for Jewish Research to the best first book in Jewish studies and a 2012 National Jewish Book Award Finalist; and Ghetto: The History of a Word (Harvard, 2019), which was recently translated into Italian. He has also edited a documentary reader entitled Spinoza's Challenge to Jewish Thought: Writings on His Life, Philosophy, and Legacy (Brandeis, 2019) that is part of the Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought. He is currently writing an intellectual, cultural, urban, and Jewish history of the Upper West Side of Manhattan from the 1940s to the 1980s. 

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