The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World write by Matthew Stewart. This book was released on 2007-01-17. The Courtier and the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business—and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as “the atheist Jew.” As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as “God’s attorney.” In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today.
Courtier and the Heretic
Courtier and the Heretic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Courtier and the Heretic write by Matthew Stewart. This book was released on 2006-12-26. Courtier and the Heretic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book Review Once upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business—and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as “the atheist Jew.” As his inflammatory manuscripts circulated underground, Spinoza lived a humble existence in The Hague, grinding optical lenses to make ends meet. Meanwhile, in the glittering salons of Paris, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was climbing the ladder of courtly success. In between trips to the opera and groundbreaking work in mathematics, philosophy, and jurisprudence, he took every opportunity to denounce Spinoza, relishing his self-appointed role as “God’s attorney.” In this exquisitely written philosophical romance of attraction and repulsion, greed and virtue, religion and heresy, Matthew Stewart gives narrative form to an epic contest of ideas that shook the seventeenth century—and continues today.
The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong
The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong write by Matthew Stewart. This book was released on 2009-08-10. The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A devastating bombardment of managerial thinking and the profession of management consulting…A serious and valuable polemic." —Wall Street Journal Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies. In narrating his own ill-fated (and often hilarious) odyssey at a top-tier firm, Stewart turns the consultant’s merciless, penetrating eye on the management industry itself. The Management Myth offers an insightful romp through the entire history of thinking about management, a withering critique of pseudoscience in management theory, and a clear explanation of why the MBA usually amounts to so much BS—leading us through the wilderness of American business thought.
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic write by Matthew Stewart. This book was released on 2014-07-01. Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Longlisted for the National Book Award. Where did the ideas come from that became the cornerstone of American democracy? America’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly tracks the ancient, pagan, and continental ideas from which America’s revolutionaries drew their inspiration. In the writings of Spinoza, Lucretius, and other great philosophers, Stewart recovers the true meanings of “Nature’s God,” “the pursuit of happiness,” and the radical political theory with which the American experiment in self-government began.
Betraying Spinoza
Betraying Spinoza - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Betraying Spinoza write by Rebecca Goldstein. This book was released on 2009-01-16. Betraying Spinoza available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Part of the Jewish Encounter series In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original. He went on to produce one of the most ambitious systems in the history of Western philosophy, so ahead of its time that scientists today, from string theorists to neurobiologists, count themselves among Spinoza’s progeny. In Betraying Spinoza, Rebecca Goldstein sets out to rediscover the flesh-and-blood man often hidden beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his Jewish past. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the Inquisition’ s persecution of its forced Jewish converts plays itself out in Spinoza’s philosophy. The excommunicated Spinoza, no less than his excommunicators, was responding to Europe’ s first experiment with racial anti-Semitism. Here is a Spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and hero—a surprisingly contemporary figure ripe for our own uncertain age. From the Hardcover edition.
