Therapy for the handbag. Gift edition in a small format, printed entirely on linen with a ribbon bookmark. The Jewish philosopher Spinoza and the National Socialist politician Alfred Rosenberg. One an unyielding free spirit, who was expelled from the Jewish community due to his critical views on religion and is now considered the founder of modern biblical criticism. The other a stubborn, hate-ridden anti-Semite, whose writings made him the leading ideologue 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 great psychoanalyst Irvin D. Yalom tells the story of these two men knowledgeably and compellingly, taking his readers into the world of philosophy and simultaneously into the depths of human nature.