The ethics presents a complete metaphysical, epistemological and ethical worldview that is immensely inspiring. The young spinoza a metaphysician in the making edited by yitzhak y. Spinozas political and ethical philosophy by robert. It was written between 1661 and 1675 1 and was first published posthumously in 1677. Spinoza user meeting presentations spinoza centre user meeting forum agenda and minutes available facilities. A great little book on spinoza is deleuzes spinoza. In betraying spinoza, rebecca newberger goldstein sets out to rediscover the fleshandblood man often buried beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality and to provide a comprehensive cultural and religious context for the formation of his ideas. I now pass on to explaining the results, which must necessarily follow from the essence of god, or of the eternal and infinite being.
The living thoughts of spinoza, by arnold zweig on spinoza, by diane steinberg. The collected works of spinoza, volume ii notre dame. 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 this first volume contains spinoza s single most important work, the ethics, and. 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. Buy spinoza s political and ethical philosophy by robert alexander duff online at alibris. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. From 1949 to 1968 he was professor of political science at the university of chicago. This type of passive mind that spinoza writes about in the earlier books of the ethics is a state of. Among philosophers, spinoza is best known for his ethics, a monumental work that presents an ethical vision. Feb 07, 2011 but although spinoza who admired many aspects of stoicism is regarded as the chief source of modern pantheism, he does, in fact, want to maintain the distinction between god and the world. In what ways are the philosophies of spinoza and nietzsche. On his travels, rotthier explores spinoza s pronouncements about the nature of existence and the great questions of life. Spinoza reconsidered jonathan israel, radical enlightenment. Feb 23, 2003 for the past few years i have been looking for spinoza, sometimes in books, sometimes in places, and that is why i am here today.
It is a strong collection of essays that are individually thoughtprovoking and collectively coherent, giving the widest possible overview of the interesting work being done on spinoza today. Damasios book looking for spinoza was really a refreshing read in many ways. Hi all, at the beginning of part 2 of the ethics spinoza opens with this comment. He is considered one of the great rationalists of 17thcentury philosophy and, by virtue of his magnum opus the ethics, one of the definitive. The appendix of wienpahls book the radical spinoza new york university press, 1979, which contains the definitions, axioms, postulates and propositions in english and latin, may be counted as such, too, although it is a bit of curiosity. His exposition of the main lines of spinoza s thought is clear and in my opinion correct. He gives a neuroscientist perspective of the nature of and human significance of feelings and related phenomena and the focus is on feelings themselves, what they are and what they provide pg. Spinoza s theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. Curley offers translations only, but he does pay a lot of attention to the transmission and. Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in latin by baruch spinoza. Dit is nu eens geen boek dat speciaal voor spinoza kenners geschreven is. Spinoza s scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age 2011, the philosopher, the priest, and the painter. With the naked peartree, an account of a yearlong journey around the netherlands on the trail of spinoza, rudi rotthier set out to write the most readable book about the dutch philosopher ever written.
Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. This is, by the way, in the context of a fine summary of spinoza s rationalism. Read the book not all at once, but in small portions at many sittings. And having finished it, consider that you have but begun to understand it. He find within spinoza many similarities to nietzsche. Popular spinoza books showing 150 of 186 ethics paperback by. Quirky and partial, includes a chapter psychotherapy, a very critical reading of. For example, in setting out the essentials of spinoza s outlook, he makes a nice short argument that spinoza was not as is sometimes claimed an atheist. The first collection of studies focused on spinoza s early work. Spinozas scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age 2011, the philosopher, the priest, and the painter. 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. This book, which presents spinoza s main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical. Here is a spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and heroa. Click here for more information the only complete edition in english of baruch spinoza s 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 spinoza.
The collected works of spinoza, volume i book depository. Following a logical stepbystep format, it defines in turn the nature of god, the mind, human bondage to the. Rejecting both the mindbody dualism of descartes and traditional religious views about god and the universe, spinoza s philosophy was groundbreaking in its radical understanding of the relationship between the human person and the divine, the nature of moral action, and the relativization of the. Join facebook to connect with rudi rotthier and others you may know. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Spinoza is supposed to have written a defense of his views, but the text no longer exists.
Spinoza, by roger scruton spinoza a life, by steven nadler. Editors and translators are often denoted with acronyms mbg spinoza, premiers ecrits, ed. Join facebook to connect with thomas rotthier and others you may know. Also included are selections from other works by spinoza, chosen by curley to make the ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of spinoza s life and the main themes of his philosophy.
Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy. Yalom imaginative and erudite sums up the spinoza problem a therapist and a professor of psychiatry at stanfords school of medicine, irvin d. Until his death in 1677, spinoza was to live quietly in rijnsburg, voorburg, and the hague, earning his living by grinding and polishing lenses. Baruch spinoza has 178 books on goodreads with 118128 ratings. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. One of the times literary supplements books of the year 2016, chosen by clare carlisle the collected works of spinoza has been the labour of a lifetime, and it provides us with a fluent, meticulous, consistent and usefully annotated english version of everything spinoza wrote except the hebrew grammar, and a fresh opportunity to see his arguments in detail and to see them whole. Baruch spinoza shelved 24 times as spinoza avg rating 4. Spinoza now is an important addition to a new strand of literature on philosopher baruch spinoza.
Spinoza writes, after experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and i saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing of good or bad in themselves, except insofar as my mind was moved by them, i resolved at last to try to find out whether there was. Published shortly after his death in 1677, ethics is undoubtedly spinozas greatest worka fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes. For the past few years i have been looking for spinoza, sometimes in books, sometimes in places, and that is why i am here today. Synopsis baruch spinoza 16321677 was one of the most important philosophers of all time. Rejecting both the mindbody dualism of descartes and traditional religious views about god and the universe, spinozas philosophy was groundbreaking in its radical understanding of the relationship between the human person and the divine, the nature of moral action, and the relativization of the. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Spinoza selections by edited by john wild abebooks.
Joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain by antonio damasio m. All our modern philosophers, though often perhaps unconsciously, see through the glasses which baruch spinoza ground. Entertainingly written, more like a historical novel than a serious biography, with a short preface by einstein. Philosophy and the making of modernity 16501750 oxford university press. Yalom is the author of several professional works and a novelist who has introduced three different philosophers into his fictionfirst nietzsche, then schopenhauer and now spinoza.
The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Improvement of the understanding, ethics and correspondence. Features an international team of leading spinoza researchers. Spinoza selections by spinoza, edited by john wild and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. 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. Takes an interdisciplinary approach and includes essays not only by philosophers but also by historians of literature and intellectual. The practice itself is conventional and convenient enough, but often. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read the collected works of spinoza. It is a strong collection of essays that are individually thoughtprovoking and collectively coherent, giving the widest possible overview of the interesting. This is the first complete biography of spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival. A curious pastime, as you can see, and one that i had never. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, spinoza is among the most relevant today. Deleuze sees both spinoza and nietzsche as philosophers who saw the world in terms of power relations.
Spinoza s most famous and provocative idea is that god is not the creator of the world, but that the world is part of god. This complete set of spinozas writingstranslated in lucid, readable englishis an invaluable tool for those new to spinoza studies as well as the professional scholar. This book is the 76th greatest nonfiction book of all time as determined by. He describes at length how joy and sorrow are paramount to our. The philosopher colin mcginn sharply criticizes one such effort, by the neuroscientist antonio damasio in his book looking for spinoza. He is the author of many books, among them the political philosophy of hobbes, natural right and history, and spinozas critique of religion, all published by the university of chicago press. Today, spinoza is considered one of the great rationalists of the 17thcentury philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century enlightenment and modern. Read then some commentary, like pollocks spinoza, or martineaus study of spinoza, or better, both. Spinoza is the only thinker to both espouse and explicate the existence and operation of the human mind. Rudi rotthier is een vlaamse journalist en schrijver.
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