Between Philosophy and Religion: Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity. By Brayton Polka

摘要

Brayton Polka’s lucid and complex two-volume study, Between Philosophynand Religion: Spinoza, the Bible, and Modernity, engages innumerable pro-nblems in our philosophical moment. This might seem an outsize judgment.nWhat could a book on Spinoza, the Bible, and modernity possibly have to saynabout the manifold truths and antagonisms of “living in the end times,” asnSlavoj Žižek’s most recent book would have it (Verso, 2010)?