Books by baruch spinoza baruch spinoza average rating 4. 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. Jul 31, 2005 the political treatise, spinoza s final work, is a largely theoretical inquiry into the fundamental principles of political philosophy. Oct 23, 2007 spinoza is the most systematic and reasoned thinker of the rationalists. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Land seorsum repetita classic reprint, and more on. On the improvement of the understanding by baruch spinoza. Jan 18, 2001 spinoza s theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. Spinoza is quoted approvingly for instance, by deleuze in his expressionism in philosophy. Apr 30, 2015 buy spinoza beyond philosophy by beth lord, beth lord isbn.
It was written between 1661 and 1675 1 and was first published posthumously in 1677. To see the presence of spinoza, louis althusser once quipped, one must at least have heard of him. Baruch spinoza books list of books by author baruch spinoza. Spinoza now is an important addition to a new strand of literature on philosopher baruch spinoza. Ethics by baruch spinoza, 9780872209, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. What seem like separate issues spinoza s pioneering advocacy of complete freedom of thought in religious matters. This book differs from other introductory books on. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom washington post. 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.
First, consider two of spinoza s claims about the minds knowledge of itself and its body. Please report any errors in the text, sentence numbering. Read the spinoza of market street online free book in epub. The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Treatise on the emendation of the intellect, short treatise. By that which is selfcaused, i mean that of which the essence. As close you can get to paradise is the senseofwonder of the universe. Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work, and is considered his magnum opus. Leonard cohen, the partisan spinoza is quoted approvingly for instance, by deleuze in his expressionism in philosophy. This first extensive study of spinoza s philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosophers thoughts on the matter. The main characters of this philosophy, non fiction story are.
The text of the spinoza book is freely available and is a great read by itself. The seven best books on or by spinoza the daily idea. Spinoza s theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. By laying the groundwork for the 18thcentury enlightenment3 and modern biblical criticism,4 including modern conceptions of.
The ethics can be a bit difficult to understand given the geometrical order it is written, but when it finally makes sense it is evident that it truly is very profound and influential deductive rationalist logic. Such fear he considers to be a passive emotion, or affection, which is a bondage to pain, symptomatic of our impotence and. He feels that you should take responsibility for and try to manage your emotions. At this period in philosophical history, philosophers were extremely impressed both with geometry and the physics of newton and leibniz. Of the instruments of the intellect, or true ideas 8. In betraying spinoza, rebecca goldstein sets out to rediscover the fleshandblood man often hidden behind the veneer of rigorous rationality, and to crack the mystery of the breach between the philosopher and his jewish past. The two books the notion that divinity could be read in the natural world the metaphor of the book of nature was most famously publicized by galileo himself. Seymour feldman, department of philosophy, rutgers university. 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. The essays collected in this volume suggest that what applies to althusser applies to his whole generation that spinoza is an unsuspected but very real presence in the work of contemporary philosophers from deleuze and lacan to foucault and derrida. Representation and the mindbody problem in spinoza. Practical philosophy by gilles deleuze, looking for spinoza. All our modern philosophers, though often perhaps unconsciously, see through the glasses which baruch spinoza ground.
The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 186 pages and is available in paperback format. Spinoza s pantheistic and monistic conception of the universe is absolutely awesome. Ethics, spinoza is pursuing the establishment of one unified book of nature and also of true religion a book of deus, sive natura, informed by the scienza nuova of galileo. In calling something cause of itself i mean that its essence involves existence, i. Highly recommended standard text from the best translator in english,choice. 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 and ontological propositions. Pubprincetonthe selections focus on the theme of religion and are arranged to introduce the reader to the ideas and arguments that find mature expression in the ethics, included in its entirety. Spinoza is consistent with a scientific view, and also believes in emotion and intuition.
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Baruch spinoza 16321677 was a prominent dutch philosopher and along with rene descartes, he was a leading philosophical figure of the dutch golden age. Spinoza s letters are valuable supplements to his philosophical books. Others want to carry documents around with them on their mobile phones and read while they are on the move. Many people prefer to read offline or to print out text and read from the real printed page. Of the instruments of the intellect, or true ideas. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. Considered one of the great rationalists of 17thcentury philosophy, spinozas posthumous masterpiece ethics, in which he opposed home categories recent authors lists series collections donate about contact f. 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 living thoughts of spinoza, by arnold zweig on spinoza, by diane steinberg.
Many feel that he breathed fresh air into philosophy and helped launch the openminded enlightenment in the seventeenth century. Seligman, author of flourish the spinoza problem is a ringing endorsement for an authentically philosophical life, wherein a toweringly heroic philosopher is persecuted in two eras. There seem to be few philosophical problems of any importance that do not find. Baruch spinoza has 177 books on goodreads with 118405 ratings. In the secondary scholarship, nadler has been a oneman spinoza industry recently. Improvement of the understanding spinoza all you can books.
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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. Spinoza s ethics is one of the most difficult books in philosophy. Baruch spinoza was a dutch philosopher of portuguese sephardi origin. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Ex editione operum quoquot reperta sunt quam curaverant j.
Seymour feldman, department of philosophy, rutgers. This is a guidebook to the ethics, the major work of the seventeenth century philosopher baruch spinoza. The ethics and other works 978069671 by edwin curley. An edinburgh philosophical guide, and kant and spinozism. See all books authored by baruch spinoza, including the portable atheist. 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. It is notoriously obscure, as spinoza invents a variety of new terms and attempts to layout the book like a geometric proof.