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Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Yalom is the author of several professional works and a novelist who has introduced three different philosophers into his fictionfirst nietzsche, then schopenhauer and now spinoza. Spinozas ethics is founded on the idea that we are egoists who should do nothing but search our own advantage e4p24, but that in doing so, this is when we are. The spinoza problem is a ringing endorsement for an authentically philosophical life, wherein a toweringly heroic philosopher is persecuted in two eras. The prose rewrites the opening salvos of spinozas ethics through a conversation between two people walking around a parking lot and talking about dogs, an actual dog in someones yard, and people in a theater watching what turns out to be a film. Theres a new literary celebrity in town, and his name is baruch spinoza rachel kadishs the weight of ink is like a. Dave mesing chantal jaquet, affects, actions, and passions in spinoza trans.

Vittorio morfino, the spinozamachiavelli encounter trans. Later in 1665, spinoza notified oldenburg that he had started to work on a new book, the theologicopolitical treatise. Spinoza bibliography online network how is spinoza. The new spinoza articulates that presence, making the influence and significance of spinoza perfectly clear for a new generation of philosophy. Bohrs spinoza an experiment in ambiance, lineation and energy exchange is a booklength poem that alternates prose and verse sections. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. The reader is presented with a living debate engaged by firstrate scholars, who come to grips with the ideas of a philosopher seen as one of the few founders of the modern mind. Marco abel the connection between french philosopher gilles deleuze and italian political theorist antonio negri has drawn attention in academic publications over the last decade.

Spinozas magnum opus, the ethics, was published posthumously in the year of his death. Of all the philosophers of the seventeenth century, spinoza is among the most relevant today. Alessandra roberti 3405281987 elisabetta bonizzi 3384540360. Spinoza on community, affectivity, and life values by. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Ethics, demonstrated in geometrical order usually known as the ethics, is a philosophical treatise written in latin by baruch spinoza. Spinoza on community, affectivity, and life values. Sponsored by the max margles memorial fund of the jpl. The twentyfive articles collected for this anthology display a wide range of interpretations to central themes in spinozas philosophy. For negri, spinozas philosophy has never been more relevant than it is today to. These philosophers explore spinozas most important themes in detail, opening up new possibilities for reading and interpreting spinoza. Theres a new literary celebrity in town, and his name is. Reason papers 169 the cambridge companion spinoza, ed. Also included are selections from other works by spinoza, chosen by curley to make the ethics easier to understand, and a substantial introduction that gives an overview of spinozas life and the main themes of his philosophy.

The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom the washington post. The contrasted analysis of personalities, that of philosopher bento spinoza and of nazi ideologist alfred rosenberg. Recent decades have seen the 17thcentury dutch jewish thinker reincarnated again and again, even wandering the earth in multiple bodies at once. Most of us know heard about him through albert einstein when asked if he believed in god, he answered i believe in spinozas god. Among the innumerable treasures the nazis stole from europe during world war ii was a collection of books displayed at the spinoza museum in rijnsburg, holland. Baruch spinoza has 177 books on goodreads with 118169 ratings. Whereas studies of spinoza in english have emphasized the logic of the ethics, these essays instead focus on the marginal and developmental moments that have had such a profound effect on french thought. A kind of elaborated argument to show that spinozas philosophy was a diamond in the rough, shackled by the last vestiges of medieval scholastic philosophy, yet too far ahead of its time to be appreciated or even understood for a couple of centuries. Spinoza for our time extends and reflects back upon the trilogy of longer, mosaiclike sometimes guernicalike, in their kaleidoscopic ambition. The novel is a masterpiece, depicting the ultimate triumph of clear and compassionate reason over religious dogma and political pathology alike. His writing has been commissioned by penned in the margins and the university of leicester and published by block, aschb and the architects journal. We publish works in the fields of philosophy, religion, and ethics by past and contemporary authors who have something significant to say about the human.

Seligman, author of flourish irvin yaloms the spinoza problem is an amazing novel that combines fact and fiction in a spellbinding manner. Thomas pearson is a poet, artist, musician and architectural conservationist from the northeast of england, based in york. It is a strong collection of essays that are individually thoughtprovoking and collectively coherent, giving the widest possible overview of the interesting work being done on spinoza today. The book displays a panoramic picture of spinoza scholarship over the last three. The best books on the philosophy of information five. Spinoza now is an important addition to a new strand of literature on philosopher baruch spinoza. Seligman, author of flourish the spinoza problem is a ringing endorsement for an authentically philosophical life, wherein a toweringly heroic philosopher is persecuted in two eras. One of the early thinkers of the enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions. Improvement of the understanding, ethics and correspondence. The oxford professor of philosophy and the ethics of information says methods for discussing the ethics of information technology have been latent in philosophy from its origins. Yalom imaginative and erudite sums up the spinoza problem a therapist and a professor of psychiatry at stanfords school of medicine, irvin d.

A really good expose of spinozas philosophy, succinct but not dumbed down. Among philosophers, spinoza is best known for his ethics, a monumental work that presents an ethical vision. In subversive spinoza, antonio negri spells out the philosophical credo that inspired his radical renewal of marxism and his compelling analysis of the modern state and the global economy by means of an inspiring reading of the challenging metaphysics of the seventeenthcentury dutchjewish philosopher spinoza. Hey everyone, im crossposting this from rphilosophy i started a series of videos on one of my favorite philosophers. Spinoza engaged in correspondence from december 1664 to june 1665 with willem van blijenbergh, an amateur calvinist theologian, who questioned spinoza on the definition of evil. The max margles memorial fund of the jpl presents a.

The best books on the philosophy of information recommended by luciano floridi. In the book, spinoza became the first to argue that the bible is not literally the word of god but rather a work of human literature. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. Reason papers 169 the cambridge companion to spinoza, don garrett ed. Little is known about the psyche of either baruch spinoza or alfred rosenberg, yet using his extraordinary ability to peer into the minds of his. Two books have been published in the series so far.

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