Most readers of spinoza treat him as a pure metaphysician, a grim determinist, or a stoic moralist, but none of these descriptions captures the author of the ethics, argues steven b. 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. Pdf walter lapini, a recent book on the derveni papyrus. Offering a new reading of spinozas masterpiece, smith asserts that the ethics is a celebration of human freedom and its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed. This discussion continues to more recent times bodei. Spinozas ethics by spinoza abebooks shop for books. This was the first complete biography of spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival research.
Although it was published posthumously in 1677, it is his most famous work, and is considered his magnum opus. Mignini mignini, meinsma, spinoza et son cercle philpapers. Here youll find current best sellers in books, new releases in books, deals in books, kindle ebooks, audible audiobooks, and so much more. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. Tolerance and freedom of conscience in the works of spinozaremarks on mignini, filippo hypothesis. Spinozas most famous and provocative idea is that god is not the creator of the world, but that the world is part of god. Spinoza biography by margaret gullanwhur spinozaauthor. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom the washington post. 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. Spinoza now is an important addition to a new strand of literature on philosopher baruch spinoza. This is the first complete biography of spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival.
Books by baruch spinoza baruch spinoza average rating 4. 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. 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. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the jewish community in amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the christian authorities as atheistic, then hailed by humanists as the gospel of. Spinozas intellectual power, which emerged shortly after 1656 in his treatise on the emendation of the intellect, must have had a long incubation. 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. In the seventeenth century, the philosopher spinoza. Buy a cheap copy of a spinoza reader book by baruch spinoza. A curious pastime, as you can see, and one that i had never. What should i read to learn about spinozas philososphy. 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. 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.
Walter lapini, fattori fuorvianti e tutele negli errori ermeneutici e negli errori di copia. The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Among the innumerable treasures the nazis stole from europe during world war ii was a collection of books displayed at the spinoza museum in. It is more in the genre of psychobiography, attempting to plumb the depths of spinozas character and claiming that he was far from the saintly but emotionally cool person of tradition. Spinoza is the only thinker to both espouse and explicate the existence and operation of the human mind. Spinoza and psychoanalysis in the history of psychoanalysis, several philosophers became subjects of a privileged confrontation with freud.
Spinozas scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age 2011, the philosopher, the priest, and the painter. From the 1920s intellectuals noted correspondences between freudian thought and spinozas philosophy smith, 1924. Spinoza for our time extends and reflects back upon the trilogy of longer, mosaiclike sometimes guernicalike, in their kaleidoscopic ambition. Spinozas life and works 17 the violence of human emotional reactions and the lifethreatening danger of human greed, ambition, and bigotry. You may copy it, give it away or reuse it under the terms of the project gutenberg license included with this ebook or online at. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Tolerance and freedom of conscience in the works of spinoza remarks on mignini, filippo hypothesis. Baruch spinoza 16321677 was one of the most important philosophers of all time.
The twentyfive articles collected for this anthology display a wide range of interpretations to central themes in spinozas philosophy. 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. By laying the groundwork for the 18thcentury enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, i. At this period in philosophical history, philosophers were extremely impressed both with geometry and the physics of newton and leibniz. In the event things got worse, and spinoza gave up the idea of publishing the ethics, believing that it would create such a cloud of hostility as to obscure, in the minds even of reasonable people, the real meaning of its arguments. Baruch spinoza was born to portuguese jews living in exile in holland, but his life among the marranos there was often unsettled. Walter lapini, fattori fuorvianti e tutele negli errori.
Try not to get put off by the appearance of the geometrical method. One of the early thinkers of the enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions. The book displays a panoramic picture of spinoza scholarship over the last three. The splendidly researched biography by margaret gullanwhur presents a very different picture and is a very different kind of book. 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. Ethica, ordine geometrico demonstrata, usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in latin by baruch spinoza. Studies greek literature, classical philology, and ancient greek philosophy. At a time of zealotry, spinoza matters more than ever. Baruch spinoza has 178 books on goodreads with 118128 ratings. The living thoughts of spinoza, by arnold zweig on spinoza, by diane steinberg. Baruch spinoza was a dutch philosopher of sephardiportuguese origin.
Published shortly after his death, the ethics is undoubtedly spinozas greatest work an elegant, fully cohesive cosmology derived from first principles, providing a coherent picture of reality, and a guide to the meaning of an. The study of the derveni papyrus offered by valeria piano, il papiro di derveni tra religione e filosofia, florence, olschki, 2016, presents considerable weaknesses in the reconstruction of cols. The philosophy of spinoza, selected from his chief works. With a life of spinoza and an introduction by joseph ratner the modern library of the worlds best books, 60. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. The books homepage helps you explore earths biggest bookstore without ever leaving the comfort of your couch. At a first look, you may open the book to find dry definitions, arcane axioms and a series of propositions, pareddown to provide an economical and. In the history of western thought, two wellknown and highly significant spinoza revivals include germaninspired neospinozism of approximately the late 18th and early 19th centuries and frenchinspired neospinozism of approximately the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Despite an early rabbinical education, he was expelled from the synagogue at amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656. Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy. All our modern philosophers, though often perhaps unconsciously, see through the glasses which baruch spinoza ground. It is notoriously obscure, as spinoza invents a variety of new terms and attempts to layout the book like a geometric proof.