Summary
Irvin Yalom: The Problem of Spinoza
In the book The Problem of Spinoza, Irvin Yalom weaves fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom parallels the story of Baruch Spinoza, a seventeenth-century thinker who was excommunicated from the Jewish community because of his philosophy, with the story of the rise and fall of Nazi ideologue Alfred Rozenberg, who ordered his operatives to loot Spinoza's library in an attempt to deal with the Nazi "Spinoza problem." Moving effortlessly from the Golden Age of Amsterdam to Nazi Germany, Yalom explores the inner lives of two enigmatic men in a story of influence and apprehension, the origins of good and evil, the philosophy of freedom and the reign of terror.
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