When nietzsche wept, lying on the couch, the schopenhauer cure, and the spinoza problem. The spinoza problem by irvin yalom read online on bookmate. Yalom is the author of several professional works and a novelist who has introduced three different philosophers into his fictionfirst nietzsche, then schopenhauer and now spinoza. When the nazis invaded holland they didnt destroy spinozas books. Little is known about the psyche of either baruch spinoza or alfred rosenberg, yet using his extraordinary ability to peer into the minds of his patients, dr. Reading the ethics clare carlisle in this final instalment, how the ethics is not just a philosophical treatise, but also a training manual for a philosophical way of life. Spinoza had no real life outside his reading and writing. He is the author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, his oeuvre. His works, translated into over 20 languages, have been widely read by therapists and nontherapists alike. Yalom is an existentialist psychoanalyst and a professor emeritus of stanford university in psychiatry. See all irvin yalom videos purchase signed irvin yalom books. Yalom explores the mindsets of two men separated by 300 years. A haunting portrait of arthur rosenberg, one of nazisms chief architects, and his obsession with one of historys most influential jewish thinkers in the spinoza problem, irvin yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psychophilosophical drama.
Among the innumerable treasures the nazis stole from europe during world war ii was a collection of books displayed at the spinoza museum in. I attended university of leiden and did not obtain a degree. Mar 30, 2015 a year or so a go i read the spinoza problem, a novel based on two figures in history, baruch spinoza and alfred rosenberg. I wrote books including ethics and treatise on theology and. The self has once again become a fashionable topic in philosophy, given a boost through recent advances in cognitive and neuroscience which find it intriguing that an entity as familiar as the self continues to elude full scientific investigation. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom washington post. Read the spinoza problem, by irvin yalom online on bookmate when sixteenyearold alfred rosenberg is called into his headmasters office for antisemitic remarks he made during a school speech, h. The spinoza problem by irvin yalom aurels marginalia. In one conversation toward the end of the book, spinoza begs to differ with his friend franco. I have mentioned before, in my ranting about books and reading, my life long difficulties with studying philosophy. The spinoza problem is a philosophical novel and i chose to read it as an introduction to yalom because i admire spinoza. Irvin yalom discusses the spinoza problem novel youtube. Mar 15, 20 in the spinoza problem, irvin yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psychophilosophical novel. In the spinoza problem, irvin yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psychophilosophical novel.
Irvin yaloms the spinoza problem is an amazing novel that combines fact and fiction in a spellbinding manner. Mar 18, 2012 the spinoza problem covers a vast amount of extraordinary historical territory from spinoza s excommunication from the amsterdam jewish community to the rise and eventual fall of the nazi. Click here for more information the only complete edition in english of baruch spinozas works, this volume features samuel shirleys preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of spinozas original texts. A psychiatrist with a deep interest in philosophical issues, yalom jointly tells the story of the seventeenthcentury thinker baruch spinoza, his philosophy and subsequent excommunication from the jewish community, and his apparent influence on the nazi ideologue alfred rosenberg. Irvin yalom has created a taut, deeply informative page turner. In the event things got worse, and spinoza gave up the idea of publishing the ethics, believing that it would create such a cloud of hostility as to obscure, in the minds even of reasonable people, the real meaning of its arguments. The spinoza problem irvin d yalom haftad 9780465061853. Yalom discusses his latest novel, the spinoza problem 2012, perseus books, with his son, victor yalom. The spinoza problem by irvin d yalom fantastic fiction. Spinozas most famous and provocative idea is that god is not the creator of the world, but that the world is part of god. The reader is presented with a living debate engaged by firstrate scholars, who come to grips with the ideas of a philosopher seen as one of the few founders of the modern mind. Jay parini, author of the last station and the passages of h. In this book, spinoza argues that the way to blessedness or salvation for each person involves an expansion of the mind. Yalom has produced a rare gem in existing literature.
He is the author of many books, including loves executioner, theory and practice in group psychotherapy, and when nietzsche wept. Buy a cheap copy of a spinoza reader book by baruch spinoza. By imagining the unexpected intersection of spinoza s life with rosenbergs, internationally bestselling novelist irvin d. Using his skills as a psychiatrist, he explores the inner lives of spinoza, the saintly secular philosopher, and of rosenberg, the godless mass murderer. A race that, as he developed from antisemitic schoolboy to nazi propagandist, he would become determined to destroy.
Long after graduation, rosenberg is possessed by the spinoza problem. Yalom imaginative and erudite sums up the spinoza problem a therapist and a professor of psychiatry at stanfords school of medicine, irvin d. Read the spinoza problem, by irvin yalom online on bookmate when sixteenyearold alfred rosenberg is called into his headmasters office for antisemitic remarks he made during a. Free shipping and pickup in store on eligible orders.
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