Steven Nadler

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When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People: How Philosophy Can Save Us from Ourselves Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro
Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today’s epidemic of irrationality
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Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die Steven Nadler
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life’s big questions
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Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy Steven Nadler and Ben Nadler
An entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought
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The Philosopher, the Priest, and the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes Steven Nadler
How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of René Descartes
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age Steven Nadler
The story of one of the most important—and incendiary—books in Western history
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil in the Age of Reason Steven Nadler
In the spring of 1672, German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz arrived in Paris, home of France's two greatest philosopher-theologians of the period, Antoine Arnauld and Nicolas de Malebranche. The meeting of...
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Ideas³

A new way of life Every day billions of people devote a significant amount of time to worshiping an imaginary being. More precisely, they praise, exalt, and pray to the God of the major Abrahamic religions. They put their hopes in—and they fear—a transcendent, superna... Read More

Ideas Podcast: When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People

When Bad Thinking Happens to Good People There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people are embracing crazy, even dangerous ideas. Read More

Spinoza’s guide to life and death How should we face our mortality? Whether death is—as we all hope—a far off eventuality or, through age or illness, imminent, what is the proper attitude to take? Should we fear death? Read More