Despite an early rabbinical education, he was expelled from the synagogue at amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656. Spinoza, by roger scruton spinoza a life, by steven nadler. One of the early thinkers of the enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions. This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Feb 01, 2003 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Martin lin, university of toronto, canada this is an exciting, interesting, and highlyreadable book on spinoza.
Spinoza s ethics is one of the most difficult books in philosophy. Baruch spinoza books list of books by author baruch spinoza. Buy ethics penguin classics new ed by spinoza, benedict, hampshire, stuart, curley, edwin isbn. Goldstein argues that the trauma of the inquisitions persecution of its forced jewish converts plays itself out in. Jonathan israel, who assumes lodewijk meyer is the writer, describes this book as a. Spinozas scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age 2011, the philosopher, the priest, and the painter. Jun 14, 2001 buy spinoza a life by nadler, steven isbn. Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy.
Baruch spinoza was a seventeenthcentury dutch philosopher who tried to reinvent religion moving it away from something based on superstition and ideas of direct divine intervention to being a discipline that was far more impersonal, quasiscientific and yet also, at all times, serenely consoling. It was written between 1661 and 1675 1 and was first published posthumously in 1677. Della rocca has succeeded in making spinoza s 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 living thoughts of spinoza, by arnold zweig on spinoza, by diane steinberg. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a page. Spinoza s intellectual power, which emerged shortly after 1656 in his treatise on the emendation of the intellect, must have had a long incubation. 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. Thriftbooks sells millions of used books at the lowest everyday prices. Ethics in the ethics or how did spinoza analyse everyday life. Spinoza s theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance.
If you want to study spinoza, this is the first book id advise you to read. 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. At a time of zealotry, spinoza matters more than ever aeon. With this book spinoza has found a critic he so richly deserves. The small pocket book edition of spinoza s ethica contains the latin original and the french translation of the ethica. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Spinoza biblioteca grandes pensadores spanish edition. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Books by baruch spinoza baruch spinoza average rating 4. 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. Nelson his book is held in high regard by philosophers, and its easy to understand why.
See actions taken by the people who manage and post content. Read more read less inspire a love of reading with prime book box for kids. Quirky and partial, includes a chapter psychotherapy, a very critical reading of. One overwrought critic called it a book forged in hell by the devil himself. In calling something cause of itself i mean that its essence involves existence, i. 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. See all books authored by baruch spinoza, including the portable atheist. 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.
The book displays a panoramic picture of spinoza scholarship over the last three. Nadler is one of the best living spinoza interpretors. Integrale les 5 parties french edition and millions of other books. Spinoza is the only thinker to both espouse and explicate the existence and operation of the human mind. Also, a good book which unintendedly summarizes history of jews immigrating from spain and prtugal to nederlands in 14th and 15th century. In accordance with the wishes of his father he studied theology, but soon showed a decided preference for free philosophical speculation. Maxime rovere, le clan spinoza, flammarion much has been said about spinoza and the life he led especially when it comes to.
The ethics is presented in the standard translation of the work by edwin curley. Psychotherapist writer professor emeritus of psychiatry. At this period in philosophical history, philosophers were extremely impressed both with geometry and the physics of newton and leibniz. 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. List of books and articles about spinoza online research. Spinoza tried to replace the bible with a scientificallybased ethical system. Dunne, 1901 ps primary source a primary source is a work that is being studied, or that provides firsthand or direct evidence on a topic. Spinoza s life and works 17 the violence of human emotional reactions and the lifethreatening danger of human greed, ambition, and bigotry. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
Nov 08, 2015 we kickoff our series of videos dedicated to spinoza s philosophy with a short biography of the dutch philosopher. Land seorsum repetita classic reprint, and more on. The breadth and importance of spinoza s work was not fully realized until many years after his death. Buy a cheap copy of a spinoza reader book by baruch spinoza. Practical philosophy by gilles deleuze, looking for spinoza. I also read his other books on spinoza, youll like his way of explaining.
Bennett could be a poster boy for 20th century angloamerican analytical philosophy. Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his. This edition also includes an introduction by stuart hampshire, outlining spinoza s. 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. Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in latin by baruch spinoza. Baruch spinoza 16321677 was a prominent dutch philosopher and along with rene descartes, he was a leading philosophical figure of the dutch golden age. Ex editione operum quoquot reperta sunt quam curaverant j.
Spinoza the routledge philosophers kindle edition by. Baruch spinoza was a dutch philosopher of portuguese sephardi origin. A powerful work of elegant simplicity, the ethics is a brilliantly insightful consideration of the possibility of redemption through intense thought and philosophical reflection. Baruch spinoza has 178 books on goodreads with 118128 ratings. I highly recommend his other works, especially those on kant and his magnum opus, learning from six philosophers. 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. By laying the groundwork for the 18thcentury enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, i. 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. 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.
Spinoza s life he belonged to the community of jews from spain and portugal who had fled the inquisition. 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. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. The twentyfive articles collected for this anthology display a wide range of interpretations to central themes in spinoza s philosophy. Baruch spinoza shelved 24 times as spinoza avg rating 4. 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. Two children, isaac and rebecca, were born to michael and rachel. 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. Everything you always wanted to know about spinoza books. I do not read latin nor am i an expert on spinoza or his ethicha but the french translation helps me to put other translations in, e.