With Spinoza: Life and Legacy, Jonathan Israel has written a biography of arguably the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, which examines the man’s life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza’s reception in his own time and in the years following his death. Tonight, Israel will discuss his new book with Tinneke Beeckman and Lukas Verburgt.