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Title	:	The Spinoza Problem
Author	:	Irvin D. Yalom
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 321 pages
Published	:	March 6th 2012 by Basic Books (AZ) (first published 2012)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Fiction. Psychology. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels

The Spinoza Problem

Irvin D. Yalom

Hardcover | Pages: 321 pages

Rating: 4.2 | 8037 Users | 633 Reviews

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When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is called into his headmaster’s office for anti-Semitic remarks he made during a school speech, he is forced, as punishment, to memorize passages about Spinoza from the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is stunned to discover that Goethe, his idol, was a great admirer of the Jewish seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Long after graduation, Rosenberg remains haunted by this “Spinoza problem”: how could the German genius Goethe have been inspired by a member of a race Rosenberg considers so inferior to his own, a race he was determined to destroy?

Spinoza himself was no stranger to punishment during his lifetime. Because of his unorthodox religious views, he was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community in 1656, at the age of twenty-four, and banished from the only world he had ever known. Though his life was short and he lived without means in great isolation, he nonetheless produced works that changed the course of history. 

Over the years, Rosenberg rose through the ranks to become an outspoken Nazi ideologue, a faithful servant of Hitler, and the main author of racial policy for the Third Reich. Still, his Spinoza obsession lingered.

By imagining the unexpected intersection of Spinoza’s life with Rosenberg’s, internationally bestselling novelist Irvin D. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of Spinoza, the saintly secular philosopher, and of Rosenberg, the godless mass murderer.

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Original Title:	The Spinoza Problem
ISBN:	0465029639 (ISBN13: 9780465029631)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	WIZO Literatuurprijs (2013)

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I decided to give Yalom a second chance, after having put down When Nietzsche Wept a few years ago halfway through and finding myself too disappointed to pick it back up. That's rare. Normally I tend to finish the books I start regardless.Adjusted expectations and the fact that the story combines a WWII and a Dutch Golden age setting, two historical periods that interest me a lot, made this a more pleasant read. However, I will probably never become a fan of Yalom. If you hope to find a deep,

Jay wrote: "Critiquing Spinoza on the basis of his remarks about women, and regarding his dislike of received Rabbinical wisdom about biblical

(Alfred Rosenberg talks to psychiatrist and friend, Friedrich Pfister)"I have to confess that you're the first psychiatrist I've ever met. I know nothing about your field""Well, for centuries, psychiatrists have primarily been diagnosticians and custodians for hospitalized psychotic, almost incurable patients, but all that has changed in the last decade. The change began with Sigmund Freud in Vienna, who invented the talking treatment called psychoanalysis , which permits us to help patients

It's been years since I've read any Spinoza, but that wasn't a problem here - Yalom's historical faction includes long passages where Spinoza himself explains his rational process. Told in alternating chapters, we meet Spinoza at the time of his excommunication (cherem) from the Sephardic community in Amesterdam and a young Alfred Rosenberg, ultimately Hitler's publisher and the man who stole Jewish (and other) artworks for the Reich.So, what is the Spinoza problem? Spinoza was a Jew of

I found this initially intriguing but ultimately tedious. In fact there is NOT much of a link to go on, between Rosenberg and Spinoza; it feels like a false or inflated premise. And also, pretty much, it's a novel in which nothing happens. There's a conversation; and then another conversation; and then another conversation where they talk about the previous conversation. If you want a very light fluffy summary of some of Spinoza's views, okay; and in fact the Rosenberg character is a pretty

A Novel About SpinozaNovels about the life and philosophy of Spinoza (1632 -- 1677) are as difficult as they are rare. In 1837, the German novelist Berthold Auerbach (1812 -- 1884) wrote an unfortunately little-remembered novel, revised in 1854, about Spinoza which focused upon what the author portrayed as the philosopher's ambiguous relationship to Judaism. Much more recently, the renowned American psychotherapist and novelist Irvin Yalom has written a novel with Spinoza as its major figure:

For once I'm surprised by how much I *dis*liked a book. *The Spinoza Problem* has so many of the elements that I usually adore: historical fiction drawn around real and important historical figures, settings and themes of personal significance to me, and a core political/philosophical dimension. Yet I never connected with this book. Though it does provide an accessible introduction to Spinoza's complex and sometimes obtuse philosophy, I found its presentation so simplified that it sometimes felt