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The Late-Summer Passion of a Woman of Mind
A sensual love story, drawing on Plato and Spinoza to examine the conflicting claims of reason and desire.
Eva Mueller, a professor of Plato and Spinoza at a small college, undertakes the philosophical education of Michael Fields, who is handsome, clever, and only twenty.
Eva Mueller, a professor of Plato and Spinoza at a small college, undertakes the philosophical education of Michael Fields, who is handsome, clever, and only twenty.
Hardcover, 0 pages
Published
July 9th 1991
by Random House Value Publishing
(first published 1989)
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It feels as if this is two separate books. The connection the author makes between the Professor's passion and the holocaust feels contrived.
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Rebecca Newberger Goldstein grew up in White Plains, New York, and graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College, receiving the Montague Prize for Excellence in Philosophy, and immediately went on to graduate work at Princeton University, receiving her Ph.D. in philosophy. While in graduate school she was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Whiting Foundation Fellowship.
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