What is the best book of spinoza to begin with his work. Two children, isaac and rebecca, were born to michael and rachel. 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. Just to be clear, there is no single best book on 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. Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom the washington post. 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.
Lennox johnson january 10, 2019 books leave a comment. The breadth and importance of spinozas work was not fully realized until many years after his death. 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.
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. Spinoza s god, or nature, which equates the realm of the divine with the realm of the. 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. Elwes 1853 the ethics is a philosophical book written by baruch spinoza. Spinozas ethics is one of the most difficult books in philosophy. 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. His life and philosophy have long attracted the attention of. Spinoza is the only thinker to both espouse and explicate the existence and operation of the human mind. The seven best books on or by spinoza the daily idea.
Immagine e funzione teorica di spinoza negli scritti jenesi di hegel. 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. This page contains a list of the best books on or by spinoza. This type of passive mind that spinoza writes about in the earlier books of the ethics is a state of. Bibliografia degli scritti italiani su spinoza dal 1675 al 1982. See all books authored by baruch spinoza, including the portable atheist. Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in latin by baruch spinoza. Spinoza was born on november 24, 1632 and given the jewish. The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Baruch spinoza books list of books by author baruch spinoza. At this period in philosophical history, philosophers were extremely impressed both with geometry and the physics of newton and leibniz. In this way the unity of spinozas thought is shown to consist in his preoccupation with the ethical question of salvation.
Online shopping from a great selection at books store. It is notoriously obscure, as spinoza invents a variety of new terms and attempts to layout the book like a geometric proof. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. 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. The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers. Spinoza, imagination and chaos northwestern scholars. His ideas on religion, politics, ethics, human psychology and metaphysics, presented in. 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.
In a letter to blyenbergh, spinoza wrote, ethics, as everyone knows, ought to be based on metaphysics and physics ep. Here is a spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and heroa. Thus he sought to write a book of nature that would include the path to salvation5 as dictates of nature itself. Bibliografia degli scritti italiani su spinoza dal 1675 al 1982, urbino. 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. Baruch spinoza was born to portuguese jews living in exile in holland, but his life among the marranos there was often unsettled. Spinoza biography by margaret gullanwhur spinozaauthor. 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.
Practical philosophy by gilles deleuze, looking for spinoza. The living thoughts of spinoza, by arnold zweig on spinoza, by diane steinberg. Spinoza s scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age. Spinoza now is an important addition to a new strand of literature on philosopher baruch spinoza. Ex editione operum quoquot reperta sunt quam curaverant j. Baruch spinoza has 177 books on goodreads with 118405 ratings. 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. Improvement of the understanding, ethics and correspondence.
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