Ways into reading spinoza philosophical bibliotherapy. Door spinoza s lens uitgeverij pelckmansklement, oktober 2012, zesde druk november 2017. From 1880 to 2018 less than 5 people per year have been born with the first name spinoza. The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Even though nietzsche had a religious upbringing, this book is a criticism of the new ideas of christianity that, according to the philosopher, destroyed the ancient. All our modern philosophers, though often perhaps unconsciously, see through the glasses which baruch spinoza ground. Improvement of the understanding spinoza ebook all. Joy, sorrow, and the feeling brain antonio damasio mariner. Spinozas theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance.
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. Here is a spinoza both hauntingly emblematic and deeply human, both heretic and heroa. Moreover, nothing else could possibly prevent the existence of that substance which has infinite attributes in itself. Published shortly after his death in 1677, ethics is undoubtedly spinozas greatest worka fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a coherent picture of reality and to comprehend the meaning of an ethical life. Spinozas metaphysics, i will touch on all of these issues. He find within spinoza many similarities to nietzsche. His ethics is a huge set of definitions, axioms, propositions, proofs, and corollaries in a bizarre format called the geometrical style, loosely based on the very rigid and sequential nature of mathematical proofs.
The political treatise, spinozas final work, is a largely theoretical inquiry into the fundamental principles of political philosophy. He found, for himself, that the chief good is knowledge. Seligman, author of flourish the spinoza problem is a ringing endorsement for an authentically philosophical life. Published shortly after his death, the ethics is undoubtedly spinozas. He is the author of many papers on spinoza, of the god of spinoza cambridge, 1997 and of before logic suny, 2000.
Theres a new literary celebrity in town, and his name is. Tinneke beeckman is the author of macht en onmacht 3. Thomas cook explains the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text. Indeed, for spinoza, we cannot make sense of our limited perspective unless we invoke the objective, divine perspective. Despite an early rabbinical education, he was expelled from the synagogue at amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656. The book then guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, before exploring the reception and influence of this classic philosophical work. There are good modern translations of spinozas main works by samuel shirley hackett paperback. But for spinoza, of course, there is objective truth, and god grasps it. A great little book on spinoza is deleuzes spinoza. Brandon look becoming who one is in spinoza and nietzsche i the connection between spinoza and nietzsche has often been remarked upon in the literature on the two thinkers.
When referring to the ethics these common forms and abbreviations are. Ik kan meedelen dat ik schoenmaat 38 heb en graag aardbeien. Een hele verlichting zit er tussen hun favoriete filosofen in, maar dat laten ze hier niet aan hun hart komen. Looking for spinoza continues his exposition of the overwhelming role of emotion in life and, exploiting the intuitive understandings of the seventeenth. Uit trouw door peter henk steenhuis moeiteloos van morsi naar machiavelli tinneke beeckman. List of propositions from the ethics, which helps readers to trace the development of key themes. Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. Doorbraak sprak met filosofe en auteur tinneke beeckman over haar favoriete boeken. Baruch spinoza was born to portuguese jews living in exile in holland, but his life among the marranos there was often unsettled.
Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in french philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in france was pleased with this german import. It earned spinoza an enduring reputation as one of the most. The political and the metaphysical 3 ghent university june 23, 2016 location. As the ontological argument makes clear, gods very essence includes existence. Spinoza contra phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar french thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to nietzsche and heidegger. Peace, grace, regarding the topicality and its eruptive creativity and originality of participation, through today.
George eliot translation of spinoza sheds new light on her fiction. The one person whose picture is older looking obviously must be spinoza. Theres a new literary celebrity in town, and his name is baruch spinoza rachel kadishs the weight of ink is like a. Michael rosenthal university of washington, spinoza on. Baruch spinozas philosophy encompasses nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. In the secondary scholarship, nadler has been a oneman spinoza industry recently. Improvement of the understanding, ethics and correspondence. Revealing considerable scientific aptitude, the breadth and importance of spinozas work was not fully realized until years after his death. The shortest introduction for new readers is spinoza by roger scruton phoenix.
This is the first complete biography of spinoza in any language and is based on detailed archival. Deleuze sees both spinoza and nietzsche as philosophers who saw the world in terms of power relations. The oldest recorded birth by the social security administration for the name spinoza is wednesday, december 25th, 1940. Novelists work on the philosophers landmark ethics helped develop her astute grasp of human emotion. The essays collected in this volume suggest that what applies to althusser applies to his whole generation that spinoza is an unsuspected but very real presence in the work of contemporary philosophers from deleuze and lacan to foucault and derrida. In accordance with the wishes of his father he studied theology, but soon showed a decided preference for free philosophical speculation. 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.
This book, which presents spinozas main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. 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. He chose a single word from that language for his device. Spinoza now is an important addition to a new strand of literature on philosopher baruch spinoza.
The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom the spinoza problem by irvin yalom so, what is the spinoza problem. 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. New book engaging with spinozas hebrew grammar spinoza. All the spinoza references are from the collected works of spinoza, vol. The following common abbreviations have been used to refer to spinozas writings. Byatts possession, but with more seventeenthcentury judaism. Synopsis baruch spinoza 16321677 was one of the most important philosophers of all time. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. Finally, although it depends on a posteriori grounds to which spinoza would rather not appeal, the cosmological argument. Door spinoza s lens by tinneke beeckman, 9789028968349, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. May one further comment that the indoeuropean language table link with the africanindonesian table is hebraic and that the architecture of interpretation rests upon the bridge of hebrew and interpolation of the last thousand years. 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. Daniel schneider cambridge university, spinoza s ontological argument.
This sentence sums up the basic idea and the sarcastic tone of the antichrist, so if youre pissed off by reading just that, dont go for the rest. When we look at the cover of this book we see two people sort of intertwined. 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. Spinoza for our time extends and reflects back upon the trilogy of longer, mosaiclike sometimes guernicalike, in their kaleidoscopic ambition. Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his death. Spinoza is the most systematic and reasoned thinker of the rationalists. Spinoza supposed it easy to demonstrate that such a being does really exist. In what ways are the philosophies of spinoza and nietzsche. Entertainingly written, more like a historical novel than a serious biography, with a short preface by einstein.
Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, spinoza is among the most relevant today. 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. Filosofe tinneke beeckman, professor franse literatuur alexander roose en hun twee wijsgeren. A life, an introduction to spinozas ethics spinozas ethics. Following a logical stepbystep format, it defines in turn the nature of god, the mind, human bondage to the emotions, and the power of understanding, moving from a. Ethics spinoza, benedict, hampshire, stuart, curley. E ethics, ep correspondence epistolae, kv short treatise on god, man and his wellbeing. 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. Books by baruch spinoza baruch spinoza average rating 4. Designed to facilitate a thoughtful and informed reading of spinozas ethics, this anthology provides the ethics, related writings, and two valuable appendices. Spinoza wrote the last indisputable latin masterpiece, and one in which the refined conceptions of medieval philosophy are finally turned against themselves and destroyed entirely. To see the presence of spinoza, louis althusser once quipped, one must at least have heard of him.
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