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'''Baruch Spinoza''' (born Benedito de Espinosa; 1632–1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin.
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==Works==
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''Selection based on [http://academia.edu/3691861/ OOB].''
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[[Image:Spinoza_Opera_Posthuma.jpg|thumb|200px|''Opera Posthuma'', 1677. {{la}}]]
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[[Image:Spinoza_Opera.jpg|thumb|200px|''Opera'', 1925. {{la}}]]
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===Editions===
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* ''Opera Posthuma'', [Amsterdam]: [Rieuwertsz], 1677, [http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/ac-343/start.htm WDB], [http://data.onb.ac.at/ABO/%2BZ184915602 ONB]. {{la}} The almost complete edition of Spinoza's works, published shortly after his death, prepared by members of his circle. Contains ''Ethica; Politica; De Emendatione Intellectus; Epistolae et ad eas responsiones; Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae.'' Does not include the ''Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being'' discovered in the mid-19th century.
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* ''De Nagelate Schriften van B. d. S'', [Amsterdam]: [Rieuwertsz], 1677, [http://archive.org/details/ned-kbn-all-00006432-001 IA]. {{nl}} An early Dutch translation of Spinoza's works, published simultaneously with the ''Opera Posthuma''.
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* ''Benedicti de Spinoza Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia'', 2 vols., ed. H. E. G. Paulus, Jena, 1802-03, [http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10724329_00005.html BSB/1], [http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10724330_00007.html BSB/2], [http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/4521349 e-rara], [http://books.google.com/books?id=1nwsAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover Google/1]. {{la}} An uncritical reprint of the 17th-c. editions of Spinoza; used by the German Idealists (Hegel is said to have played a minor role in its preparation).
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* ''Opera'', 2 vols., eds. J. van Vloten and J. P. N. Land, The Hague, 1882-83; repr. 1895; 1914. The first edition of Spinoza’s works to include a critical apparatus, albeit slender.
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* ''Opera'', 5 vols., ed. Carl Gebhardt, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1925 (1-4), [http://purl.ox.ac.uk/uuid/e775c4c734b84b8e936156b09c97b9be PDF/1], [http://purl.ox.ac.uk/uuid/ffb42bc872454b8587a71819d2aeb5c8 PDF/2], [http://purl.ox.ac.uk/uuid/bc0e975e5a6241a8b17d68e1b46a6731 PDF/3], [http://purl.ox.ac.uk/uuid/ad07190d1eba45e68fc14c91a9052c36 PDF/4], [http://www.nlx.com/collections/115 HTML], [http://philosophie.ac-creteil.fr/IMG/pdf/SPINOZA_Opera.pdf PDF]; repr., 1972 (1-4) & 1987 (5), [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=A0FCA77AD5472F6449FEAEB52681BB36 PDF/1]. {{la}} The major critical edition of Spinoza's complete works, which introduced the standard pagination of Spinoza’s text (commonly designated by the schema "G Volume/Page/Line"); many editorial decisions have been questioned over the past century.
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* ''Œuvres'', 5 vols., ed. Pierre-François Moreau, Paris: PUF, 1999ff. {{la}}/{{fr}} A bilingual critical edition and French translation, with several contributing editors; expected to supersede Gebhardt's edition upon completion. Vols.: I (Premiers écrits), III (Traité théologico-politique), V (Traité politique).
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* ''The Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica"'', eds. Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro, Leiden: Brill, 2011, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=36282C1D8ECCA1F68F16299FDB3AED62 PDF]. {{la}}/{{en}} A critical edition of the recently discovered manuscript of Spinoza’s ''Ethica'', found in the archives of the Inquisition in Rome; the only known manuscript of this text, and is dated slightly earlier than the ''Opera Posthuma''; the manuscript was accompanied by a detailed testimony on Spinoza and his circle, and is included here.
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* [http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=1149 370+ electronic editions listed in Post-Reformation Digital Library]
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[[Image:Spinoza_Benedict_de_A_Spinoza_Reader.jpg|thumb|200px|''A Spinoza Reader'', trans. Curley, 1994, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2033 Log]. {{en}}]]
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[[Image:Spinoza_Complete_Works.jpg|thumb|200px|''Complete Works'', trans. Shirley, et al., 2002, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=f5474036b29ecb29e4e381c2b18538ad PDF]. {{en}}]]
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===Translations===
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; English
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* ''The Collected Works of Spinoza, vol. 1'', ed. & trans. Edwin Curley, Princeton University Press, 1985. {{en}} Incl. ''Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect'', the ''Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being'', the ''Ethics'', and Epistles 1–29; also Glossary-Index. The second volume to be published. Reviews: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2185168 Bennett] (1987), [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_the_history_of_philosophy/summary/v026/26.1hubbeling.html Hubbeling] (1988).
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* ''A Spinoza Reader: The "Ethics" and Other Works'', ed. & trans. Edwin Curley, Princeton University Press, 1994, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2033 Log]. {{en}} A selection from Curley 1985, incorporating numerous corrections; and excerpts from ''Theological-Political Treatise'' and letters numbered 30+.
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* ''Ethics'', ed. & trans. G. H. R. Parkinson, Oxford University Press, 2000, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/thing/5518ef69334fe05073af19b1 ARG (part)]. {{en}}
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* ''Spinoza: Complete Works'', trans. Samuel Shirley, et al., ed., intro. & notes Michael Morgan, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=f5474036b29ecb29e4e381c2b18538ad PDF], [http://www2.dsu.nodak.edu/users/dmeier/31458292-Spinoza-Complete-Works.pdf PDF]. {{en}} Contains revised translations of ''Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect'' and ''Ethics'' (trans. Shirley, 1992); ''Short Treatise'' (Wolf, 1910); ''Principles of Cartesian Philosophy'' and ''Metaphysical Thoughts'' (Shirley, 1998); ''Theological-Political Treatise'' (Shirley, 2nd ed., 2001); ''Hebrew Grammar'' (Bloom, 1964, not part of Curley's 2-volume trans.); ''Political Treatise'' (Shirley, 2000); ''The Letters'' (Shirley, 1995). Does not employ the Gebhardt pagination. Review: [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/jewish_quarterly_review/v095/95.2sutcliffe.pdf Sutcliffe] (2005).
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* ''Theological-Political Treatise'', trans. Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel, ed. Jonathan Israel, Cambridge University Press, 2007, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/c3833ee3023b0336df0733a0e2fbd568#0.01 ARG], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=C3833EE3023B0336DF0733A0E2FBD568 PDF]. {{en}}
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* ''Œuvres de Spinoza'', 4 vols., trans. & annot. Charles Appuhn, Paris: Garnier, 1964. {{fr}}
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* ''Œuvres'', 5 vols., ed. Pierre-François Moreau, Paris: PUF, 1999ff. {{fr}}
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* ''Torat ha-Midot'' [The Ethics], trans. Jakob Klatzkin, Ramat Gan: Masada, 1923; repr., 1967. {{he}} Also traces the influence of medieval Hebrew philosophical vocabulary on Spinoza’s Latin terminology.
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===Bibliography===
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* [http://academia.edu/3691861/ at Oxford Bibliographies Online] {{en}}
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* [http://www.spinoza-bibliografie.de/index.php?action=show_report_entry at Spinoza Gesellschaft] {{de}}
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==Literature==
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[[Image:Deleuze_Gilles_Expressionism_in_Philosophy_Spinoza.jpg|thumb|200px|Gilles Deleuze, ''Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza'', 1969/1992, [[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Expressionism_in_Philosophy_Spinoza.jpg|PDF]]. {{en}}]]
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===General overviews===
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* Fredrick Pollock, ''Spinoza: His Life and Philosophy'', 2nd ed., New York: American Scholar Publications, 1899; repr., 1966. {{en}} A comprehensive study of Spinoza’s philosophy.
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* Henry Austryn Wolfson, ''The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Process of Reasoning'', 2 vols. Harvard University Press, 1934, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=64DE4293733A519FBF31D415FCF4BBB5 PDF/1], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=0a139074ddc9460bcbcf095eb596100d PDF/2]. {{en}} A study of Spinoza's philosophy that stresses its medieval background.
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* Martial Gueroult, ''Spinoza'', 2 vols., Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1968 & 1974. {{fr}} A monumental study of the first two parts of Spinoza’s ''Ethics''.
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* Gilles Deleuze, ''Spinoza et le problème de l'expression'', Paris: Minuit, 1969, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/68010a6b54187f8c9fcbd44c8b8a215e#0.01 ARG]. {{fr}}
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** ''Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza'', trans. Martin Joughin, New York: Zone Books, 1992, [[Media:Deleuze_Gilles_Expressionism_in_Philosophy_Spinoza.jpg|PDF]], [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=F7526AA8A895148493C62A66A28BE5C7 DJV]. {{en}} An influential exposition of Spinoza’s philosophy.
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* Jonathan Bennett, ''A Study of Spinoza’s "Ethics"'', Indianapolis: Hackett, 1984, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4d717f60a59588ceb7ec1a226eb5cae0 PDF]. {{en}} A classic study of the ''Ethics''.
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* Edwin Curley, ''Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza’s "Ethics"'', Princeton University Press, 1988, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7C05298807A09A139C9BA28EFCD5CFB9 PDF]. {{en}} An introduction to Spinoza’s philosophy.
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* Steven Nadler, ''Spinoza’s "Ethics": An Introduction'', Cambridge University Press, 2006, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2BAA4CB86B110DEDA0355CD2BD119717 PDF]. {{en}} Review: [https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/25153-spinoza-s-ethics-an-introduction/ LeBuffe] (2006).
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* Michael Della Rocca, ''Spinoza'', London and New York: Routledge, 2008, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=72C0F4F8DA722A3005DC1F56DEBC6566 PDF]. {{en}} A philosophical exposition of Spinoza’s philosophy; presents the ''Principle of Sufficient Reason'' as the key for understanding the entire system.
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* Yitzhak Y. Melamed, ''Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought'', Oxford University Press, 2013, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=ee45f350de77401dd0876799e3bc1f5f PDF]. {{en}} A study of the foundations of Spinoza’s philosophy.
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[[Image:Nadler_Steven_Spinoza_A_Life.jpg|thumb|200px|Steven Nadler, ''Spinoza: A Life'', 1999, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7C976CA0860B17A739EF3579528A6B20 PDF]. {{en}}]]
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===Biography===
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* K.O. Meinsma, ''Spinoza en zijn kring. Historisch-kritische studiën over Hollandsche vrijgeesten'', 's-Gravenhage, 1896. {{nl}}
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** ''Spinoza und sein Kreis: historisch-kritische Studien über holländische Freigeister'', trans. Lina Schneider, Berlin: Schnabel, 1909. {{de}}
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** ''Spinoza et son cercle: Étude critique historique sur les hétérodoxes hollandais'', trans. S. Roosenburg, Paris: J. Vrin, 1983. {{fr}}
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* J. Freudenthal, ''Spinoza: sein Leben und seine Lehre, Bd. 1: Das Leben Spinozas'', Stuttgart: Frommann, 1904, [http://archive.org/details/spinozaseinleben01freu IA]. {{de}} The classic study of Spinoza’s life.
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* Stanislaus von Dunin Borkowski, ''De junge de Spinoza. Leben und Werdegang im Lichte der Weltphilosophie'', Münster: Aschendorfs, 1910, [http://archive.org/details/derjungedespinoz00duni IA]. {{nl}} A study of Spinoza’s early life and philosophical development.
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* I.S. Revah, ''Spinoza et Juan de Prado'' Paris: Mouton, 1959. {{fr}} A study of heresy and heretics in seventeenth-century Jewish Amsterdam.
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* Henry Méchoulan, ''Amsterdam au temps de Spinoza'', Paris: PUF, 1990. {{fr}} A study of Spinoza’s historical setting by a leading historian of Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
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* Margaret Gullan-Whur, ''Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza'', New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. {{en}} A biography that stresses the Hispanic background of Spinoza.
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* Steven Nadler, ''Spinoza: A Life'', Cambridge University Press, 1999, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=7C976CA0860B17A739EF3579528A6B20 PDF]. {{en}} Synthesizes the achievements of twentieth-century scholarship on Spinoza’s life. Reviews: [http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/07/18/reviews/990718.18gottlit.html Gottlieb] (1999), [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shofar/summary/v020/20.1goetschel.html Goetschel] (2001).
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* Yitzhak Y. Melamed, ''The Young Spinoza: A Metaphysician in the Making'', Oxford University Press, 2015, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b9fcd4d450e0137b46f3aac29c5de25c PDF]. {{en}}
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===Philology===
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* Fokke Akkerman, ''Studies in the Posthumous Works of Spinoza'', University of Groningen, 1980. Ph.D. Thesis. {{en}} The classic philological study of the ''Opera Posthuma''.
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* Piet Steenbakkers, ''Spinoza's "Ethica": From Manuscript to Print'', Assen: Van Grocum, 1994. {{en}} A dissertation on the style and early history of the ''Ethics''.
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* Fokke Akkerman, Piet Steenbakkers (eds.), ''Spinoza to the Letter: Studies in Words, Texts and Books'', Leiden: Brill, 2005. {{en}} A collection of studies on the language and transmission of Spinoza’s texts.
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* Spinoza, ''Premiere Écrits'', ed. Filippo Mignini, trans. Michelle Beyssade and Joël Ganault, Paris: PUF, 2009. {{fr}} The first volume of P.-F. Moreau's new critical edition (see above).
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===Indexes and Dictionaries===
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* Emilia Giancotti Boscherini, ''Lexicon Spinozanum'', 2 vols., The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. {{la}} A lexicon of Spinoza’s philosophical terms; useful for terms already recognized as having a specific technical meaning. Introduction in Italian and English.
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* Michel Gueret, André Robinet, Paul Tombeur, ''Spinoza Ethica: Concordances, Index, Listes de fréquences, Tables comparatives'', Louvain-la-Neuve: CETEDOC Université Catholique de Louvain, 1977, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4c277eb3b78e12539bfdabaa1981cfdf PDF]. {{la}} A tool for the study of the terminology of the ''Ethics'', both for terms that are recognized as having a specific meaning, and for terms whose usage appears vague or colloquial. Introduction in French. Review: [http://www.jstor.org/stable/40694188 Parkinson] (1978).
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* Wiep van Bunge, Henri Krop, Piet Steenbakkers, Jeroen van de Ven (eds.), ''The Continuum Companion to Spinoza'', London: Continuum, 2011, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=E79A29C3E4F17C692A9BC6C4BFAFA178 PDF]. {{en}} A volume containing a lexicon and introductory essays on Spinoza’s life, background works, and scholarship.
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===Encyclopedic entries===
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* Blake D. Dutton, "Benedict De Spinoza (1632—1677)", ''Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', n.d., [http://web.archive.org/web/20150325074839/http://www.iep.utm.edu/spinoza/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* Steven Nadler, "Baruch Spinoza", ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2013, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* Michael LeBuffe, "Spinoza's Psychological Theory", ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2015, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-psychological/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* Richard Manning, "Spinoza's Physical Theory", ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2012, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-physics/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* Justin Steinberg, "Spinoza's Political Philosophy", ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2013, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-political/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* Samuel Newlands, "Spinoza's Modal Philosophy", ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2013, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-modal/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* Noa Shein, "Spinoza's Theory of Attributes", ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2013, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-attributes/ HTML]. {{en}}
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* Amy M. Schmitter, "Spinoza on the Emotions", ''Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy'', 2010, [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotions-17th18th/LD5Spinoza.html HTML]. {{en}}
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===Other===
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* Warren Montag, Ted Stolze (eds.), ''The New Spinoza'', University of Minnesota Press, 1998, [http://gr.aaaaarg.org/ref/8a0f63e1bfb556511ff5e293c1fbd63c#0.01 ARG]. {{en}}
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* A. Kiarina Kordela, ''$urplus: Spinoza, Lacan'', SUNY Press, 2008, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=1663 Log]. {{en}}
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* Frédéric Lordon, ''Capitalisme, désir et servitude. Marx et Spinoza'', Paris: La Fabrique, 2010, [http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=736DDF49760047E9BEAF9B7025C745F1 PDF]. {{fr}}
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** ''Willing Slaves of Capital: Marx and Spinoza on Desire'', trans. Gabriel Ash, Verso, 2014, 224 pp, [http://laelectrodomestica.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/frederic-lordon-willing-slaves-of-capital-spinoza-and-marx-on-desire.pdf PDF]. {{en}} Reviews: [http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/plantation-neoliberalism/ Taylor] (2014), [http://lareviewofbooks.org/review/labor-human-bondage-spinoza-marx-willing-slaves-capitalism Read] (2014), [http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/abhijeet_paul_reviews_frederic_lordon/ Paul] (c2015), [http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/book-review_harris-on-lordon.pdf Harris] (2015).
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* Dimitris Vardoulakis (ed.), ''Spinoza Now'', University of Minnesota Press, 2011, [http://monoskop.org/log/?p=2523 Log]. {{en}}
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==Links==
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* [http://www.kb.nl/themas/filosofie/benedictus-de-spinoza/enkele-portretten-van-spinoza Portraits]
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* [http://www.perturbedintellect.typepad.com/necessarilyeternal/ Necessarily Eternal: A Catablog of (All) Things Spinoza], since 2001.
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Revision as of 12:03, 5 May 2015

Born November 24, 1632(1632-11-24)
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Died February 21, 1677(1677-02-21) (aged 44)
The Hague, Dutch Republic
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Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa; 1632–1677, later Benedict de Spinoza) was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi Portuguese origin.

Works

Selection based on OOB.

Opera Posthuma, 1677. (Latin)
Opera, 1925. (Latin)

Editions

  • Opera Posthuma, [Amsterdam]: [Rieuwertsz], 1677, WDB, ONB. (Latin) The almost complete edition of Spinoza's works, published shortly after his death, prepared by members of his circle. Contains Ethica; Politica; De Emendatione Intellectus; Epistolae et ad eas responsiones; Compendium Grammatices Linguae Hebraeae. Does not include the Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being discovered in the mid-19th century.
  • De Nagelate Schriften van B. d. S, [Amsterdam]: [Rieuwertsz], 1677, IA. (Dutch) An early Dutch translation of Spinoza's works, published simultaneously with the Opera Posthuma.
  • Benedicti de Spinoza Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia, 2 vols., ed. H. E. G. Paulus, Jena, 1802-03, BSB/1, BSB/2, e-rara, Google/1. (Latin) An uncritical reprint of the 17th-c. editions of Spinoza; used by the German Idealists (Hegel is said to have played a minor role in its preparation).
  • Opera, 2 vols., eds. J. van Vloten and J. P. N. Land, The Hague, 1882-83; repr. 1895; 1914. The first edition of Spinoza’s works to include a critical apparatus, albeit slender.
  • Opera, 5 vols., ed. Carl Gebhardt, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1925 (1-4), PDF/1, PDF/2, PDF/3, PDF/4, HTML, PDF; repr., 1972 (1-4) & 1987 (5), PDF/1. (Latin) The major critical edition of Spinoza's complete works, which introduced the standard pagination of Spinoza’s text (commonly designated by the schema "G Volume/Page/Line"); many editorial decisions have been questioned over the past century.
  • Œuvres, 5 vols., ed. Pierre-François Moreau, Paris: PUF, 1999ff. (Latin)/(French) A bilingual critical edition and French translation, with several contributing editors; expected to supersede Gebhardt's edition upon completion. Vols.: I (Premiers écrits), III (Traité théologico-politique), V (Traité politique).
  • The Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's "Ethica", eds. Leen Spruit and Pina Totaro, Leiden: Brill, 2011, PDF. (Latin)/(English) A critical edition of the recently discovered manuscript of Spinoza’s Ethica, found in the archives of the Inquisition in Rome; the only known manuscript of this text, and is dated slightly earlier than the Opera Posthuma; the manuscript was accompanied by a detailed testimony on Spinoza and his circle, and is included here.
  • 370+ electronic editions listed in Post-Reformation Digital Library
A Spinoza Reader, trans. Curley, 1994, Log. (English)
Complete Works, trans. Shirley, et al., 2002, PDF. (English)

Translations

English
  • The Collected Works of Spinoza, vol. 1, ed. & trans. Edwin Curley, Princeton University Press, 1985. (English) Incl. Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, the Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, the Ethics, and Epistles 1–29; also Glossary-Index. The second volume to be published. Reviews: Bennett (1987), Hubbeling (1988).
  • A Spinoza Reader: The "Ethics" and Other Works, ed. & trans. Edwin Curley, Princeton University Press, 1994, Log. (English) A selection from Curley 1985, incorporating numerous corrections; and excerpts from Theological-Political Treatise and letters numbered 30+.
  • Ethics, ed. & trans. G. H. R. Parkinson, Oxford University Press, 2000, ARG (part). (English)
  • Spinoza: Complete Works, trans. Samuel Shirley, et al., ed., intro. & notes Michael Morgan, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2002, PDF, PDF. (English) Contains revised translations of Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Ethics (trans. Shirley, 1992); Short Treatise (Wolf, 1910); Principles of Cartesian Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts (Shirley, 1998); Theological-Political Treatise (Shirley, 2nd ed., 2001); Hebrew Grammar (Bloom, 1964, not part of Curley's 2-volume trans.); Political Treatise (Shirley, 2000); The Letters (Shirley, 1995). Does not employ the Gebhardt pagination. Review: Sutcliffe (2005).
  • Theological-Political Treatise, trans. Michael Silverthorne and Jonathan Israel, ed. Jonathan Israel, Cambridge University Press, 2007, ARG, PDF. (English)
French
  • Œuvres de Spinoza, 4 vols., trans. & annot. Charles Appuhn, Paris: Garnier, 1964. (French)
  • Œuvres, 5 vols., ed. Pierre-François Moreau, Paris: PUF, 1999ff. (French)
Hebrew
  • Torat ha-Midot [The Ethics], trans. Jakob Klatzkin, Ramat Gan: Masada, 1923; repr., 1967. (Hebrew) Also traces the influence of medieval Hebrew philosophical vocabulary on Spinoza’s Latin terminology.

Bibliography

Literature

Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, 1969/1992, PDF. (English)

General overviews

  • Fredrick Pollock, Spinoza: His Life and Philosophy, 2nd ed., New York: American Scholar Publications, 1899; repr., 1966. (English) A comprehensive study of Spinoza’s philosophy.
  • Henry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of Spinoza: Unfolding the Latent Process of Reasoning, 2 vols. Harvard University Press, 1934, PDF/1, PDF/2. (English) A study of Spinoza's philosophy that stresses its medieval background.
  • Martial Gueroult, Spinoza, 2 vols., Paris: Aubier-Montaigne, 1968 & 1974. (French) A monumental study of the first two parts of Spinoza’s Ethics.
  • Gilles Deleuze, Spinoza et le problème de l'expression, Paris: Minuit, 1969, ARG. (French)
    • Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza, trans. Martin Joughin, New York: Zone Books, 1992, PDF, DJV. (English) An influential exposition of Spinoza’s philosophy.
  • Jonathan Bennett, A Study of Spinoza’s "Ethics", Indianapolis: Hackett, 1984, PDF. (English) A classic study of the Ethics.
  • Edwin Curley, Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza’s "Ethics", Princeton University Press, 1988, PDF. (English) An introduction to Spinoza’s philosophy.
  • Steven Nadler, Spinoza’s "Ethics": An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2006, PDF. (English) Review: LeBuffe (2006).
  • Michael Della Rocca, Spinoza, London and New York: Routledge, 2008, PDF. (English) A philosophical exposition of Spinoza’s philosophy; presents the Principle of Sufficient Reason as the key for understanding the entire system.
  • Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought, Oxford University Press, 2013, PDF. (English) A study of the foundations of Spinoza’s philosophy.
Steven Nadler, Spinoza: A Life, 1999, PDF. (English)

Biography

  • K.O. Meinsma, Spinoza en zijn kring. Historisch-kritische studiën over Hollandsche vrijgeesten, 's-Gravenhage, 1896. (Dutch)
    • Spinoza und sein Kreis: historisch-kritische Studien über holländische Freigeister, trans. Lina Schneider, Berlin: Schnabel, 1909. (German)
    • Spinoza et son cercle: Étude critique historique sur les hétérodoxes hollandais, trans. S. Roosenburg, Paris: J. Vrin, 1983. (French)
  • J. Freudenthal, Spinoza: sein Leben und seine Lehre, Bd. 1: Das Leben Spinozas, Stuttgart: Frommann, 1904, IA. (German) The classic study of Spinoza’s life.
  • Stanislaus von Dunin Borkowski, De junge de Spinoza. Leben und Werdegang im Lichte der Weltphilosophie, Münster: Aschendorfs, 1910, IA. (Dutch) A study of Spinoza’s early life and philosophical development.
  • I.S. Revah, Spinoza et Juan de Prado Paris: Mouton, 1959. (French) A study of heresy and heretics in seventeenth-century Jewish Amsterdam.
  • Henry Méchoulan, Amsterdam au temps de Spinoza, Paris: PUF, 1990. (French) A study of Spinoza’s historical setting by a leading historian of Spanish and Portuguese Jews.
  • Margaret Gullan-Whur, Within Reason: A Life of Spinoza, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. (English) A biography that stresses the Hispanic background of Spinoza.
  • Steven Nadler, Spinoza: A Life, Cambridge University Press, 1999, PDF. (English) Synthesizes the achievements of twentieth-century scholarship on Spinoza’s life. Reviews: Gottlieb (1999), Goetschel (2001).
  • Yitzhak Y. Melamed, The Young Spinoza: A Metaphysician in the Making, Oxford University Press, 2015, PDF. (English)

Philology

  • Fokke Akkerman, Studies in the Posthumous Works of Spinoza, University of Groningen, 1980. Ph.D. Thesis. (English) The classic philological study of the Opera Posthuma.
  • Piet Steenbakkers, Spinoza's "Ethica": From Manuscript to Print, Assen: Van Grocum, 1994. (English) A dissertation on the style and early history of the Ethics.
  • Fokke Akkerman, Piet Steenbakkers (eds.), Spinoza to the Letter: Studies in Words, Texts and Books, Leiden: Brill, 2005. (English) A collection of studies on the language and transmission of Spinoza’s texts.
  • Spinoza, Premiere Écrits, ed. Filippo Mignini, trans. Michelle Beyssade and Joël Ganault, Paris: PUF, 2009. (French) The first volume of P.-F. Moreau's new critical edition (see above).

Indexes and Dictionaries

  • Emilia Giancotti Boscherini, Lexicon Spinozanum, 2 vols., The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. (Latin) A lexicon of Spinoza’s philosophical terms; useful for terms already recognized as having a specific technical meaning. Introduction in Italian and English.
  • Michel Gueret, André Robinet, Paul Tombeur, Spinoza Ethica: Concordances, Index, Listes de fréquences, Tables comparatives, Louvain-la-Neuve: CETEDOC Université Catholique de Louvain, 1977, PDF. (Latin) A tool for the study of the terminology of the Ethics, both for terms that are recognized as having a specific meaning, and for terms whose usage appears vague or colloquial. Introduction in French. Review: Parkinson (1978).
  • Wiep van Bunge, Henri Krop, Piet Steenbakkers, Jeroen van de Ven (eds.), The Continuum Companion to Spinoza, London: Continuum, 2011, PDF. (English) A volume containing a lexicon and introductory essays on Spinoza’s life, background works, and scholarship.

Encyclopedic entries

  • Blake D. Dutton, "Benedict De Spinoza (1632—1677)", Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, n.d., HTML. (English)
  • Steven Nadler, "Baruch Spinoza", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013, HTML. (English)
  • Michael LeBuffe, "Spinoza's Psychological Theory", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015, HTML. (English)
  • Richard Manning, "Spinoza's Physical Theory", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2012, HTML. (English)
  • Justin Steinberg, "Spinoza's Political Philosophy", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013, HTML. (English)
  • Samuel Newlands, "Spinoza's Modal Philosophy", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013, HTML. (English)
  • Noa Shein, "Spinoza's Theory of Attributes", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2013, HTML. (English)
  • Amy M. Schmitter, "Spinoza on the Emotions", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2010, HTML. (English)

Other

  • Warren Montag, Ted Stolze (eds.), The New Spinoza, University of Minnesota Press, 1998, ARG. (English)
  • A. Kiarina Kordela, $urplus: Spinoza, Lacan, SUNY Press, 2008, Log. (English)
  • Frédéric Lordon, Capitalisme, désir et servitude. Marx et Spinoza, Paris: La Fabrique, 2010, PDF. (French)
    • Willing Slaves of Capital: Marx and Spinoza on Desire, trans. Gabriel Ash, Verso, 2014, 224 pp, PDF. (English) Reviews: Taylor (2014), Read (2014), Paul (c2015), Harris (2015).
  • Dimitris Vardoulakis (ed.), Spinoza Now, University of Minnesota Press, 2011, Log. (English)

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