
In The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical novel. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, Yalom jointly tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, his philosophy and subsequent excommunication from the Jewish community, and his apparent influence on the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, whose ein...
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (February 26, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0465061850
ISBN-13: 978-0465061853
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.9 x 8.2 inches
Amazon Rank: 176793
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This is decent historical fiction. I thought there were positives and negatives in the book which had me swinging between giving it five stars and giving it three stars.The structure of the story consists of alternating chapters describing the lives ...
was dispatched during the Second World War to investigate a mysterious "Spinoza Problem." Seamlessly alternating between Golden Age Amsterdam and Nazi Germany, Yalom investigates the inner lives of these two enigmatic men in a tale of influence and anxiety, the origins of good and evil, and the philosophy of freedom and the tyranny of terror.