Carlos Fraenkel is James McGill Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at McGill University. His most recent book is Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World.
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Carlos Fraenkel is James McGill Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at McGill University. His most recent book is Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World.
A new book suggests that modern readers can still follow the path of reason that Spinoza traced to true well-being, but they might not want to.
The focus on Muslim anti-Semitism obscures the real quandary of multiculturalism in Angela Merkel’s Germany.
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