The magnum opus of the great American psychoanalyst and bestselling author Irvin D. Yalom. The Jewish philosopher Spinoza and the Nazi politician Alfred Rosenberg - not only centuries separate them, but their worldviews could not be more different. One is an unyielding free spirit who was banished from the Jewish community for his critical views on religion and is now considered the founder of modern biblical criticism. The other is a stubborn, hate-filled anti-Semite whose writings made him the leading ideologue of the Nazi regime, for which he was held accountable at the Nuremberg Trials. And yet, there is a connection between them that hardly anyone knows about, for until his death, Rosenberg was obsessively fascinated by the work of the Jewish rationalist.