Baruch Spinoza, Benedictus Spinoza
02 Mar 2004 18:26
Dutch/Sephardic lens-maker and philosopher.
- 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 [Blurb]
