The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II

Benedictus De Spinoza

ISBN 10: 069116763X / ISBN 13: 9780691167633

Edité par Princeton University Press Jul 2016, 2016

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Neuware - 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 original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosophers work. The centerpiece of this second volume is Spinozas Theological-Political Treatise, a landmark work in the history of biblical scholarship, the first argument for democracy by a major philosopher, and a forceful defense of freedom of thought and expression. This work is accompanied by Spinozas later correspondence, much of which responds to criticism of the Theological-Political Treatise. The volume also includes his last work, the unfinished Political Treatise, which builds on the foundations of the Theological-Political Treatise to offer plans for the organization of nontyrannical monarchies and aristocracies.

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• Titre: The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume II
• Éditeur: Princeton University Press Jul 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 069116763X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780691167633
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 161 H x 58 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 161 millimètres de hauteur par 58 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 1246 grammes

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Synopsis

The second and final volume of the most authoritative English-language edition of Spinoza's writings

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 original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work.

The centerpiece of this second volume is Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise, a landmark work in the history of biblical scholarship, the first argument for democracy by a major philosopher, and a forceful defense of freedom of thought and expression. This work is accompanied by Spinoza's later correspondence, much of which responds to criticism of the Theological-Political Treatise. The volume also includes his last work, the unfinished Political Treatise, which builds on the foundations of the Theological-Political Treatise to offer plans for the organization of nontyrannical monarchies and aristocracies.

The elaborate editorial apparatus--including prefaces, notes, glossary, and indexes--assists the reader in understanding one of the world's most fascinating, but also most difficult, philosophers. Of particular interest is the glossary-index, which provides extensive commentary on Spinoza's technical vocabulary.

A milestone of scholarship more than forty-five years in the making, The Collected Works of Spinoza is an essential edition for anyone with a serious interest in Spinoza or the history of philosophy.

À propos de l?auteur

Edwin Curley is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Michigan. His books include A Spinoza Reader, Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza's "Ethics," and Spinoza's Metaphysics. He is also the author of Descartes Against the Skeptics and the editor of an edition of Hobbes's Leviathan. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.