A Companion to Spinoza (eBook)

Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Herausgeber)

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2021
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-119-53869-1 (ISBN)

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An unparalleled collection of original essays on Benedict de Spinoza's contributions to philosophy and his enduring legacy  

A Companion to Spinoza presents a panoramic view of contemporary Spinoza studies in Europe and across the Anglo-American world. Designed to stimulate fresh dialogue between the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy, this extraordinary volume brings together 53 original essays that explore Spinoza's contributions to Western philosophy and intellectual history. A diverse team of established and emerging international scholars discuss new themes and classic topics to provide a uniquely comprehensive picture of one of the most influential metaphysicians of all time.  

Rather than simply summarizing the body of existing scholarship, the Companion develops new ideas, examines cutting-edge scholarship, and suggests directions for future research. The text is structured around six thematically-organized sections, exploring Spinoza's life and background, his contributions to metaphysics and natural philosophy, his epistemology, politics, ethics, and aesthetics, the reception of Spinoza in the work of philosophers such as Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Hegel, and more. This unparalleled research collection combines a timely overview of the current state of research with deep coverage of Spinoza's philosophy, legacy, and influence.   

Part of the celebrated Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, A Companion to Spinoza is an ideal text for advanced courses in modern philosophy, intellectual history, and the history of metaphysics, and an indispensable reference for researchers and scholars in Spinoza studies.  

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Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works at the intersection of philosophy, Jewish and religious studies, the history of science, and contemporary metaphysics. He has been awarded the ACLS-Burkhardt, NEH, Fulbright, and Mellon Fellowships. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (2015), and a large number of studies on early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and German idealism.

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Jean‐Pascal Anfray is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure, PSL University. His research focuses on late scholastic and early modern metaphysics. His recent publications include “The Unity of Composite Substance: Some Scholastic Background to the Vinculum Substantiale in Leibniz’s correspondence with Des Bosses” and “Leibniz and Descartes” (in the Oxford Handbook to Descartes and Cartesian Philosophy).

Dan Arbib is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris). He is the author of Descartes, la métaphysique et l’infini, the editor of Les Meditationes métaphysiques de Descartes. Objections et Réponses, Un commentaire, and the editor in chief of the Bulletin cartésien. He is also a specialist in Levinas and of the philosophy of Judaism, and is currently preparing a new French translation of the Theological‐Political Treatise.

Barnaby R. Hutchins is a postdoctoral research fellow at Ghent University, Belgium.

Clare Carlisle is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at King's College London. She is the author of several books, including Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard (2019) and Spinoza's Religion (2021), and she is also the editor of Spinoza's Ethics, Translated by George Eliot (2020).

John Carriero is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Between Two Worlds: A Reading of Descartes’s Meditations (Princeton, 2009) and co‐editor, with Janet Broughton, of a Companion to Descartes (Blackwell, 2008). He is currently working on a book on Spinoza’s Ethics.

Emanuele Costa is Visiting Scholar in Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. His scholarship covers themes in early modern philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. His publications include several articles on Spinoza, Leibniz, and Hans Jonas.

Luce deLire is a philosopher. She is interested in infinity, metaphysics, and contemporary politics. Find out more at: www.getaphilosopher.com

Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Business, Economics and Law, Gothenburg University. She is the author of Spinoza, Ecology and International Law: Radical Naturalism in the Face of the Anthropocene. She currently investigates artificial intelligence and international humanitarian law from the perspective of Spinoza’s metaphysics and political philosophy.

Daniel Dragic´evic´ is a PhD student at the University of Hamburg. His main interests include Spinoza and the philosophy of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (especially German Idealism and Marx). He is about to finish a book titled “On God, Man, and His Freedom” which tries to unfold the nature of Schelling’s Spinozism.

Daniel Garber is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. His principal interests are the relations between philosophy, science, religion, and society during the Scientific Revolution. In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics (1992), Descartes Embodied (2001), and Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad (2009) and is co‐editor with Michael Ayers of the Cambridge History of Seventeenth‐Century Philosophy (1998).

Don Garrett is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Cognition and Commitment in Hume’s Philosophy, Hume, and Nature and Necessity in Spinoza’s Philosophy. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza.

Zachary Gartenberg is a doctoral student in philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. His articles and reviews have appeared in the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Philosophers' Imprint, the European Journal of Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and The Leibniz Review.

Moira Gatens is Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. She is author of several articles on Spinoza's philosophy and is currently finishing a book on Spinoza and Art.

Guadalupe González Diéguez is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University de Montréal. She works on medieval Jewish thought, and on the cultural interactions among Jews, Muslims, and Christians in medieval Iberia. She has published a translation into Spanish of Spinoza’s Hebrew Grammar, Compendio de gramática de la lengua hebrea (Trotta, 2005).

Michah Gottlieb is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. His first monograph Faith and Freedom: Moses Mendelssohn’s Theological Political Thought (2011) focuses on Moses Mendelssohn’s reception of Spinoza and the political ramifications of the Pantheismusstreit. His forthcoming book The Jewish Reformation: Bible Translation and the Middle‐Class German Judaism as Spiritual Enterprise (2021) explores the axiological dimensions of bourgeois German Judaism.

Warren Zev Harvey is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of “A Portrait of Spinoza as a Maimonidean” (1981) and Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998). He is an EMET Prize laureate in the humanities (2009).

Karolina Hübner is Associate Professor at the Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. She works primarily in the metaphysics of mind and has published extensively on Spinoza.

Erin Islo is a graduate student in philosophy at Princeton University. Her work focuses on Spinoza and other early modern thinkers, with special regard to the intersection of metaphysics, politics, and law.

Chantal Jaquet is Professor in Early Modern Philosophy at University Paris 1 Panthéon‐Sorbonne. Her research interests include early modern philosophy, philosophy of the body (smell), social philosophy (class‐passing). She has written five books on Spinoza including Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza, The Unity of Body and Mind (Edinburgh Press, 2018).

Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College London. Her main areas of interest are early modern philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of art. Among her publications are Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early‐Modern Philosophy (Oxford 1997); Spinoza on Philosophy Religion and Politics: the Theological‐Political Treatise (Oxford, 2012); and Spinoza on Learning to Live Together (Oxford, 2020).

Denis Kambouchner is Professor Emeritus at University Paris 1 Panthéon‐Sorbonne. He is the chief editor of the Complete Works of Descartes (Gallimard, 8 vols, in progress). His publications include L’Homme des passions, Descartes et la philosophie morale, Descartes n’a pas dit and other studies on seventeenth‐century philosophy. He has also published several essays on culture and education, including L’École, question philosophique, and some books for young readers.

Olli Koistinen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turku, Finland. He works on both early modern philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. His publications include Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics (editor, Cambridge 2009), Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes (editor, with John Biro, Oxford, 2002) and many papers on Spinoza, as well publications on Kant and Descartes.

Henri Krop is a Lecturer in the History of Philosophy and Endowed Professor of Spinoza Studies at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is an author and editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Spinoza and the Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth‐Century Dutch Philosophers. He has also published an annotated Dutch version of Spinoza’s Ethics.

Raphael Krut‐Landau received his PhD from Princeton University in 2017. Since then he has been a Teaching Fellow in the Integrated Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. You can find him at plicat.io.

Mogens Lærke is senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), affiliated with the Maison Française d'Oxford (MFO) and the research centre IHRIM (UMR 5317) at the ENS de Lyon. Monographs include Leibniz lecteur de Spinoza (2008), Les Lumières de Leibniz (2015), and Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing (2021).

Michael LeBuffe is Professor and Baier Chair of Early Modern Philosophy at the University of Otago. He has interests across early modern philosophy and the History of Ethics. His most recent book is Spinoza on Reason.

Juan Manuel Ledesma Viteri is an assistant professor and doctoral candidate at the Université Paris Nanterre. His field of interest includes metaphysics, ontology, logic, ethics, and political theory. He has mainly published articles on Spinoza.

Lia Levy is a professor of philosophy at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Her research interests include metaphysics and theory of knowledge in early modern philosophy, with...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.4.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Schlagworte: 17th & 18th Century Philosophy • Geschichte • Geschichte des Judentums • History • History of Judaism • Judaism • Judentum • Philosophie • Philosophie des 17. u. 18. Jhd. • Philosophy • Religion & Theology • Religion u. Theologie • Spinoza • Spinoza, Baruch de • Spinoza companion • Spinoza epistemology • Spinoza essays • Spinoza history • Spinoza influence • Spinoza life • Spinoza metaphysics • Spinoza philosophy • Spinoza reception • Spinoza research • Spinoza scholarship • Spinoza studies
• ISBN-10: 1-119-53869-6 / 1119538696
• ISBN-13: 978-1-119-53869-1 / 9781119538691