Stewart, Matthew

Contents: The Hague, November 1676 -- Bento -- Gottfried -- A life of the mind -- God's attorney -- The hero of the people -- The many face of Leibniz -- Friends of friends -- Leibniz in love -- A secret philosophy of the whole of things -- Approaching Spinoza -- Point of contact -- Surviving Spinoza -- The antidote of Spinozism -- The haunting -- The return of the repressed -- Leibniz's end -- Aftermath.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2006

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Stewart, Matthew

Summary: Discusses how America's revolutionaries--including Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and Ethan Allen--were inspired by ideas that were ancient and pagan in nature, including the work of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius and Dutch heretic Benedict de Spinoza.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014

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Stewart, Matthew

Summary: "A trenchant analysis of how the wealthiest 9.9 percent of Americans -- those just below the tip of the wealth pyramid -- have exacerbated the growing inequality in our country and distorted our social values"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5 STE