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Lewis S. Feuer (1912–2002)

Auteur de Spinoza and the rise of liberalism.

17+ oeuvres 165 utilisateurs 2 critiques

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Date de naissance
1912-12
Date de décès
2002-11-24
Lieu de sépulture
Pine Grove Cemetery, Truro, Massachusetts, USA
Sexe
male
Nationalité
USA
Études
State University of New York (BS - City College)
Harvard University (MA, PhD -Philosophy)
Professions
professor emeritus (Sociology)
Organisations
University of Virginia
Courte biographie
A communist (especially in its Trotskyist form) early in his career, he spent later years helping to discredit this movement and the New Left. Known for his books about Spinoza, Einstein, Marx, and about imperialism.

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This book should have been more interesting, but the characters spend too much time lecturing one another about political economy, philosophy, and such. If I hadn't been reading it for a book club, I wouldn't have finished it. The "mystery" is both uninteresting and resolved by the middle of the novel.

As to the Holmes characters, Sherlock is reasonably portrayed, but Watson isn't. He liked sea stories, not philosophical treatises. It might have been interesting to see Mycroft (who has always struck me as a Tory through and through) discuss matters with Marx, but the actual dialogue is simply sterile.… (plus d'informations)
½
 
Signalé
jmeisen | Oct 23, 2023 |
Dated, in a way, but eerily prescient about present-day American politics.
 
Signalé
Cacuzza | Nov 8, 2013 |

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Œuvres
17
Aussi par
2
Membres
165
Popularité
#128,476
Évaluation
½ 3.7
Critiques
2
ISBN
30
Langues
2

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