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“... complex role. Both these motives, the Straussian and the Judaic, are crucial to Professor Yirmiyahu Yovel’s foundation of an International Spinoza Institute at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to his two-volume study of Spinoza and Other Heretics. Professor Yovel’s Spinoza is possessed of a supreme ...”

“... from converts. The term first appears several generations after 1391, but in The Other Within Yirmiyahu Yovel uses it to describe a ‘subjectivity’ that he believes emerged with the first converts to Catholicism. According to Yovel, these converts couldn’t commit themselves wholeheartedly to any ...”

“... major benefit: it puts to rest the idea that they were a kind of vanguard. The Israeli philosopher Yirmiyahu Yovel argued that the conversos’ ‘split identity’ made them modern: caught between two worlds, they were supposedly the first to experience identity as protean and individual rather than fixed and collective. Bethencourt grants that the ...”