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100			_9110352 _aYalom, Irvin D.
245			_aThe Spinoza problem : a novel / Irvin D. Yalom
260			_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2012
300			_a321 p. ; 21 cm.
500			_aIn The Spinoza Problem, Irvin Yalom spins fact and fiction into an unforgettable psycho-philosophical drama. Yalom tells the story of the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza, whose philosophy led to his own excommunication from the Jewish community, alongside that of the rise and fall of the Nazi ideologue Alfred Rosenberg, who two hundred years later during World War II ordered his task force to plunder Spinoza's ancient library in an effort to deal with the Nazis' "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.
650		4	_aAmerican literature
650		0	_aPhilosophical novel
650		0	_aFiction
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