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Spinoza, history, and Jewish modernityIn Charles Harry Manekin & Robert Eisen (eds.), Philosophers and the Jewish Bible, University Press of Maryland. 2008.
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Baruch SpinozaIn Graham Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Routledge. pp. 3--141. 2009.
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63‘The black, scabby Brazilian’: Some thoughts on race and early modern philosophyPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (2): 211-221. 2005.When Spinoza described his dream of a black, scabby Brazilian, was the image indicative of a larger pattern of racial discrimination? Should todays readers regard racist comments and theories in the texts of 17th- and 18th-century philosophers as reflecting the prejudices of their time or as symptomatic of philosophical discourse? This article discusses whether a critical discussion of race is itself a form of racism and whether supposedly minor prejudices are evidence of a deeper social path…Read more
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusDepartment of Philosophy
Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish StudiesGraftstein Professor In Jewish Philosophy
University of Chicago
PhD, 1996
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Areas of Specialization
History of Western Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
PhilPapers Editorships
Spinoza: Philosophy of Religion |