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Steven Nadler
Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has been teaching since 1988. His books include Spinoza: A Life (1999, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award), Spinoza’s Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind (2002), Rembrandt’s Jews (2003, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil (2008), The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy (co-edited, 2008), and A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Modern Age (2011). He is also the editor of the Journal of the History of Philosophy.