Reviews in his spinoza, michael della rocca has performed a service for those seeking a thorough, accessible and engaging overview of spinozas life and philosophy. The human mind does not know the human body itself, nor does it know that it exists, except through ideas of affections by which the body is affected. The site thus covers the main philosophical traditions, from the presocratic to the contemporary philosophers, while trying to bring a philosophical reading to the cultural field in general, such as cinema, literature, politics or music. Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy.
In the secondary scholarship, nadler has been a oneman spinoza industry recently. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. Although reared in the jewish community, he rebelled against its religious views and practices, and in 1656 was formally excommunicated from the portuguesespanish synagogue of amsterdam and was thus effectively cast out of the jewish world. Baruch spinoza shelved 24 times as spinoza avg rating 4. According to spinoza, the true order and connection of ideas is known not through experience and habit, but through reason. Project gutenberg offers 61,951 free ebooks to download. This matter is of the utmost importance for the understanding of spinozas physical theory, since deciding that spinoza held bodies to be in fact ways substance is and adjectival on it, in accord with the former interpretation, requires that bodies as ordinarily conceived must be thought of as arising from and reducible to some more fundamental. Spinozas philosophy of ratio edinburgh university press. He chose a single word from that language for his device. Baruch spinoza has 177 books on goodreads with 118405 ratings. Among the innumerable treasures the nazis stole from europe during world war ii was a collection of books displayed at the spinoza museum in rijnsburg, holland. The collected works of spinoza provides, for the first time in english, a truly satisfactory edition of all of spinozas writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the originallanguage texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosophers work this first volume contains spinozas single most important work, the ethics, and. Brandon look becoming who one is in spinoza and nietzsche i the connection between spinoza and nietzsche has often been remarked upon in the literature on the two thinkers. Spinoza for our time extends and reflects back upon the trilogy of longer, mosaiclike sometimes guernicalike, in their kaleidoscopic ambition books that negri wrote with hardt.
The poetry here lies in the overarching vision rather than in fine turns of phrase. The reader is presented with a living debate engaged by firstrate scholars, who come to grips with the ideas of a philosopher seen as one of the few founders of the modern mind. Baruch spinoza 16321677, is a dutch philosopher and has written the following works. Spinoza wrote the last indisputable latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely. Spinoza, rejecting any divine transcendence, identifies and merges god and the nature. Publikaties in het nederlands over spinoza antiquariaat spinoza. Boeken over spinoza en zijn context amsterdamse spinoza kring. The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his death. Leibniz, spinoza, and the fate of god in the modern world paperback january 17, 2007 by matthew stewart author visit amazons matthew stewart page. Buy a cheap copy of a spinoza reader book by baruch spinoza. Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in latin by baruch spinoza. Spinoza 1st edition michael della rocca routledge book.
In accordance with the wishes of his father he studied theology, but soon showed a decided preference for free philosophical speculation. In calling something cause of itself i mean that its essence involves existence, i. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. It earned spinoza an enduring reputation as one of the most important and original thinkers of the seventeenth century. Entertainingly written, more like a historical novel than a serious biography, with a short preface by einstein. This brings us back to the deductive, geometrical structure of the ethics. Bennett, jonathan 1984, a study of spinozas ethics, indianapolis, hackett. A life, an introduction to spinozas ethics spinozas ethics.
The collected works of spinoza provides, for the first time in english, a truly satisfactory edition of all of spinoza s writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the originallanguage texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosophers work. Improvement of the understanding, ethics and correspondence. Het leven van spinoza 16321677 koninklijke bibliotheek. A life, an introduction to spinoza s ethics spinoza s ethics. By laying the groundwork for the 18thcentury enlightenment4 and modern biblical criticism,5. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom the washington post. Vier jaar later verhuist hij van amsterdam naar rijnsburg.
Popular spinoza books showing 150 of 185 ethics paperback by. Een aantal themas in spinozas filosofie zijn noodzakelijkheid, monisme en. Synopsis baruch spinoza 16321677 was one of the most important philosophers of all time. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain is a delightful combination of philosophical musings, neurobiological science, and creative writing three subjects one does not often see intermingled within the same work.
Spinozas physical theory stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Feb 01, 2003 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The mind does not know itself, except insofar as it perceives the ideas of the affections of the body. Martin lin, university of toronto, canada this is an exciting, interesting, and highlyreadable book on spinoza. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. Books by baruch spinoza baruch spinoza average rating 4. It was written between 1661 and 1675 and was first published posthumously in 1677 the book is perhaps the most ambitious attempt to apply the method of euclid in philosophy. Heine the multitudes, ever prone to superstition, and caring more for the shreds of antiquity than for eternal truths, pays homage to the books of the bible, rather than to the word of god. Vedanta itself gives one answers to life and the universe in such a way that one does not need to search any further. Discover spinozas philosophy of ratio, from geometry and reason to bodies, affects and architecture. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom washington post. Mar 28, 2011 according to spinoza, the true order and connection of ideas is known not through experience and habit, but through reason. Vedanta itself gives one answers to life and the universe in such a.
I found andrew boyles translatio n acceptable, but i also consulted edwin curleys often used version, available in a spinoza reader an inexpensive collection that includes many of spinozas other key works. Becoming who one is in spinoza and nietzsche 3 eiip19. Spinoza for our time extends and reflects back upon the trilogy of longer, mosaiclike sometimes guernicalike, in their kaleidoscopic ambition. One ground for reading teleology out of the conatus principle and for regarding both teleology and that principle as fundamentally irrelevant to spinoza s physical theory is that the latters first explicit appearance in part iii of the ethics comes long after spinoza presents his accounts of extended nature and the basic mechanics of modes. One of the early thinkers of the enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions. From his geometrical method to his theory of mind and body and from his account of the emotions to his doctrine of how to live well, ratio is of prime importance in spinozas philosophy. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. No where does spinoza rely on evidence from the traditional books of scripture to. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work, and is considered his magnum opus. The only complete edition in english of baruch spinozas works, this volume features samuel shirleys preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of spinozas original texts. The intellectual love of wisdom is the true god, who is the immanent reality. We publish works in the fields of philosophy, religion, and ethics by past and contemporary authors who have something significant to say about the human. Click here for more information the only complete edition in english of baruch spinozas works, this volume features samuel shirleys preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of. The ethics spinozas main work, is exposed as is a treatise on geometry.
All our modern philosophers, though often perhaps unconsciously, see through the glasses which baruch spinoza ground. Click here for more information the only complete edition in english of baruch spinozas works, this volume features samuel shirleys preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of spinozas original texts. Samuel shirley, who translated spinoza s complete works into english, summed. Baruch spinoza 16321677 was a prominent dutch philosopher and along with rene descartes, he was a leading philosophical figure of the dutch golden age. Della rocca has succeeded in making spinozas notoriously difficult thought accessible to a general audience without sacrificing any of the conceptual complexity and rigors that makes spinoza such a good philosopher.
The philosophy of spinoza alfred weber b aruch benedict spinoza,1 spinosa, or despinoza, was born at amsterdam, in 1632, of portuguese jewish parents, who were, it seems, in good circumstances. The twentyfive articles collected for this anthology display a wide range of interpretations to central themes in spinoza s philosophy. Baruch spinoza s philosophy encompasses nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. Spinoza arrived at many of the conclusions of hindu vedanta on his own and writes them in a manner tat can be understood by the western reader who has not been exposed to the tenets of vedanta. Whereas studies of spinoza in english have emphasized the logic of the ethics, these essays instead focus on the marginal and developmental moments that have had such a profound effect on french thought. This is the first complete biography of spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival. Daarnaast wordt vanuit spinozas filosofie naar vrijheid gekeken. It was written between 1661 and 1675 1 and was first published posthumously in 1677.
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