Download or read book Nobility of Spirit written by Rob Riemen and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of three essays, the author identifies nobility of spirit in the life and work of Spinoza and of Thomas Mann; explores the quest for the good society in our own times; and addresses the pursuit of truth and freedom that engaged figures as disparate as Socrates and Leone Ginzburg, a Jewish-Italian intellectual murdered by Nazis.