Talk:Rebecca Goldstein

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"Recently Goldstein has turned to biography with her books Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel (2005) and Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity (2006). The books reflect her continuing interests in the relationship between the life of the mind and the demands of everyday existence, and in Jewish perspectives and history." This is at best misleading. 'Incompleteness' does not especially reflect Goldstein's interest in 'Jewish perspectives and history', since Gödel was not Jewish. The whole article needs a rewrite, cribbed as it is from the bio on Goldstein's website. It reads more like a blurb than an encyclopedia article ('another heady and erotic tale...'). Lexo 09:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Disagree with the need for a major rewrite, though I did tone down the blurbiness in the description of the second novel. It's hardly misleading to say that the Spinoza book reflects Goldstein's interest in Jewish history. And the Gödel book treats the subject to some extent in the discussion of his Austrian background and his relationship with Einstein - though Gödel himself was not Jewish. Casey Abell 12:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)