Baruch Spinoza, Benedictus Spinoza

Last update: 02 Mar 2004 18:26
First version: 2 March 2004

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Dutch/Sephardic lens-maker and philosopher.

See also:
• The Enlightenment

Recommended, primary:
• Ethics [The most helpful translation I've seen in the one translated by Samuel Shirley and edited by Seymour Feldman. The classic Elwes translation is pretty good, though, and online]
• Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect [The Elwes translation is online]
• Letters
• Political Treatise

Recommended, secondary:
• Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity, 1650--1750 [Largely a treatise on Spinoza's influence]
• Steven Nadler, A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
• Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Process of His Reasoning

To read, primary:
• BS, Theological-Political Treatise

To read, secondary:
• Lewis Samuel Feuer, Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism
• Jonathan I. Israel, Spinoza: Life and Legacy
• Eugene Marshall, The Spiritual Automaton: Spinoza's Science of the Mind
• Richard Mason, The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study
• Steven Nadler, Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
• Daniel B. Schwartz, The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image