A New Book by Dr. Yalom — The Spinoza Problem
A new novel exploring the inner life of Spinoza - a man who changed the course of history by paving the way for the Enlightenment, who founded the field of biblical criticism, and who formulated many ideas highly relevant to the field of psychotherapy.
A second plot explores the personal development and inner life of Alfred Rosenberg, the major Nazi ideologue, who played a decisive role in the Nazi destruction of European Jews. Though Spinoza and Rosenberg lived three hundred years apart, Rosenberg and the Nazis had a thorny "Spinoza problem": many revered German thinkers, among them Goethe, revered the Jew Spinoza. This paradox is at the heart of my new novel.
Praise for The Spinoza Problem:
“This is the most intriguing novel I’ve read in many a year. Irvin Yalom has created a taut, deeply informative page turner. I enthusiastically recommend ‘The Spinoza Problem.’”
—Sir Anthony Hopkins, actor
“Irvin Yalom is the most significant writer of psychological fiction in the world today. I didn’t think he could top ‘When Nietzsche Wept’ or ‘The Schopenhauer Cure,’ but he has. ‘The Spinoza Problem’ is a masterpiece.”
— Martin E. P. Seligman, author of Flourish,
past president American Psychological Association
Now available
at Amazon.com
Published March, 2012 |
