The bestseller by the great American psychoanalyst is now available in paperback for the first time. The Jewish philosopher Spinoza and the National Socialist politician Alfred Rosenberg. One, an unyielding free spirit who was banished from the Jewish community for his critical views on religion and is now regarded as the founder of modern biblical criticism. The other, a stubborn, hate-filled anti-Semite whose writings made him the leading ideologist of the National Socialist regime. Two worldviews that could hardly be more different. Yet, until his death, Rosenberg was obsessed with the work of the Jewish rationalist. The renowned psychoanalyst Irvin D. Yalom narrates the story of these two men knowledgeably and captivatingly, taking his readers into the world of philosophy and simultaneously into the depths of the human psyche.