Just to be clear, there is no single best book on spinoza. In this way the unity of spinozas thought is shown to consist in his preoccupation with the ethical question of salvation. This section of the treatise culminates in spinozas announcement of a new catholic or universal religion fi dei universalis that is said to be nothing more than a distillation of. Spinoza s god, or nature, which equates the realm of the divine with the realm of the.
Bibliografia degli scritti italiani su spinoza dal 1675 al 1982. Improvement of the understanding, ethics and correspondence. For an extensive discussion on the reception of spinoza s works by modern italian scholars, see cristina santinelli, spinoza in italia. Two children, isaac and rebecca, were born to michael and rachel. Spinoza was born on november 24, 1632 and given the jewish. The seven best books on or by spinoza the daily idea. Immagine e funzione teorica di spinoza negli scritti jenesi di hegel. Spinoza biography by margaret gullanwhur spinozaauthor. Ex editione operum quoquot reperta sunt quam curaverant j. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom the washington post. The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. 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. The breadth and importance of spinozas work was not fully realized until many years after his death. What is the best book of spinoza to begin with his work.
The living thoughts of spinoza, by arnold zweig on spinoza, by diane steinberg. Spinoza is the only thinker to both espouse and explicate the existence and operation of the human mind. 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. 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. At this period in philosophical history, philosophers were extremely impressed both with geometry and the physics of newton and leibniz. Spinoza, baruch le opere appunto di filosofia sulle opere e sul pensiero filosofico del celebre filosofo baruch spinoza, con analisi delle sue principali opere.
Spinozas ethics is one of the most difficult books in philosophy. The prose rewrites the opening salvos of spinozas ethics through a conversation between two people walking around a parking lot and talking about dogs, an actual dog in someones yard, and people in a theater watching what turns out to be a film. 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. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Spinoza, baruch vita, pensiero e opere appunto di filosofia moderna con riassunto che contiene i cenni sulla vita di spinoza e lanalisi delle sue opere dal punto di vista filosofico. 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. Bohrs spinoza an experiment in ambiance, lineation and energy exchange is a booklength poem that alternates prose and verse sections. This page contains a list of the best books on or by spinoza. Spinoza, imagination and chaos northwestern scholars. The best book for you will depend on your preferred learning style and the amount of time that you want to spend reading about spinoza. Among the innumerable treasures the nazis stole from europe during world war ii was a collection of books displayed at the spinoza museum in. His ideas on religion, politics, ethics, human psychology and metaphysics, presented in. Practical philosophy by gilles deleuze, looking for spinoza.
See all books authored by baruch spinoza, including the portable atheist. The book also contains introductory chapters on spinozas life and work, the original latin text of the treatise and its new english translation by edwin curley, and an annotated bibliography on the secondary literature. Baruch spinoza was born to portuguese jews living in exile in holland, but his life among the marranos there was often unsettled. In a letter to blyenbergh, spinoza wrote, ethics, as everyone knows, ought to be based on metaphysics and physics ep. Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in latin by baruch spinoza. 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. Baruch spinoza books list of books by author baruch spinoza. Thus he sought to write a book of nature that would include the path to salvation5 as dictates of nature itself. Baruch spinoza has 177 books on goodreads with 118405 ratings. His life and philosophy have long attracted the attention of. By laying the groundwork for the 18thcentury enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and, arguably, the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17thcentury philosophy. A life of spinoza jonathan cape 1998 hardback isbn 022405046x a biography of the 17thcentury philosopher, including a vivid historical picture of the dutch golden age.
The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy. Spinoza now is an important addition to a new strand of literature on philosopher baruch spinoza. It is notoriously obscure, as spinoza invents a variety of new terms and attempts to layout the book like a geometric proof. Land seorsum repetita classic reprint, and more on. Today, spinoza is considered one of the great rationalists of the 17thcentury philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century enlightenment and modern. 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 spinozas life and the main themes of his philosophy. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. This type of passive mind that spinoza writes about in the earlier books of the ethics is a state of. Einstein was often asked to write on spinoza, or to provide prefaces for books on him, 1 but he constantly refused, claiming to be largely ignorant of the work of the man for whom he had a deep veneration, speaking of him as our master spinoza unseres meisters spinoza, letter to willy aron, october 17, 1946, who was the first. 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. Spinoza s scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age. Here is a spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and heroa.
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