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When sixteen-year-old Alfred Rosenberg is known as into his headmaster’s workplace for anti-Semitic comments he made throughout a college talk, he's pressured, as consequence, to memorize paragraphs about Spinoza in the autobiography of the German poet Goethe. Rosenberg is surprised to learn that Goethe, his idol, was an excellent admirer of the seventeenth -century philosopher Baruch Spinoza. Extended after college, Rosenberg remains haunted by this “Spinoza problem”: how might the German guru Goethe have now been impressed by an associate of the race Rosenberg views therefore inferior to their own, a race he was motivated to ruin?Spinoza herself was no stranger to consequence during his lifetime. Due to his unorthodox religious opinions, he was excommunicated from the Amsterdam Jewish community in 1656, in the age of twenty four, and banned from the only real world he'd previously known.