The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza

by Don Garrett (Editor)

Overview

Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza has been one of the most inspiring and influential philosophers of the modern era, yet also one of the most difficult and most frequently misunderstood. Spinoza sought to unify mind and body, science and religion, and to derive an ethics of reason, virtue, and freedom 'in geometrical order' from a monistic metaphysics. Of all the philosophical systems of the seventeenth century it is his that speaks most deeply to the twentieth century. The essays in this volume provide a clear and systematic exegesis of Spinoza's thought informed by the most recent scholarship. They cover his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, psychology, ethics, political theory, theology, and scriptural interpretation, as well as his life and influence on later thinkers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781139815130
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/27/1995
Series:	Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	634 KB

About the Author

Don Garrett is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. His publications include Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy (1997), Hume (2015), and Nature and Necessity in Spinoza's Philosophy (2018).

Table of Contents

Introduction Don Garrett; 1. Spinoza's life and works W. N. A. Klever; 2. Spinoza's metaphysics Jonathan Bennett; 3. Spinoza's theory of knowledge Margaret Dauler Wilson; 4. Spinoza's natural science and philosophy of science Alan Gabbey; 5. Spinoza's metaphysical psychology Michael della Rocca; 6. Spinoza's ethical theory Don Garrett; 7. Kissinger, Spinoza, and Genghis Khan Edwin Curley; 8. Spinoza's theology Alan Donagan; 9. Spinoza and Bible scholarship Richard Popkin; 10. Spinoza's reception and influence Pierre-François Moreau.

Editorial Reviews

'… indispensable to students and scholars … Highly recommended.' M. Latzer, Choice

‘Heartily recommended.’ Grzegorz Frąszczak, Religious Studies Review

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