Oxford Handbook of Spinoza

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-533582-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 708 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1380 g

Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. This resurgence is due in no small part to the recent revival of metaphysics in contemporary philosophy and to the increased appreciation of Spinoza's role as an unorthodox, pivotal figure - indeed, perhaps the pivotal figure - in the development of Enlightenment thinking. Spinoza's penetrating articulation of his extreme rationalism makes him a demanding philosopher who offers deep and prescient challenges to all subsequent, inevitably less radical approaches to philosophy. While the twenty-six essays in this volume - by many of the world's leading Spinoza specialists - grapple directly with Spinoza's most important arguments, these essays also seek to identify and explain Spinoza's debts to previous philosophy, his influence on later philosophers, and his significance for contemporary philosophy and for us.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Della Rocca, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contributors

- Abbreviations

- 1. Introduction - Michael Della Rocca

- 2. The Virtues of Geometry - Aaron Garrett

- 3. From Maimonides to Spinoza: Three Versions of an Intellectual Transition - Kenneth Seeskin

- 4. Spinoza and Descartes - Tad M. Schmaltz

- 5. The Building Blocks of Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance, Attributes, and Modes - Yitzhak Y. Melamed

- 6. But Why Was Spinoza a Necessitarian? - Charlie Huenemann

- 7. The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Spinoza - Martin Lin

- 8. Spinoza and the Philosophy of Science: Mathematics, Motion, and Being - Eric Schliesser

- 9. Representation, Misrepresentation, and Error in Spinoza's Philosophy of Mind - Don Garrett

- 10. Finite Subjects in the Ethics: Spinoza on Indexical Knowledge, the First Person and the Individuality of Human Minds - Ursula Renz

- 11. Spinoza on Skepticism - Dominik Perler

- 12. The Highest Good and Perfection in Spinoza - John Carriero

- 13. Spinoza on Mind - Olli Koistinen

- 14. The Intellectual Love of God - Steven Nadler

- 15. The Metaphysics of Affects or the Unbearable Reality of Confusion - Lilli Alanen

- 16. Spinoza's Unorthodox Metaphysics of the Will - Karolina Hübner

- 17. Eternity - Chantal Jaquet

- 18. Spinoza's Philosophy of Religion - Carlos Fraenkel

- 19. Spinoza's Political Philosophy - Michael A. Rosenthal

- 20. Leibniz's Encounter with Spinoza's Monism, October 1675 to February 1678 - Mogens Laerke

- 21. Playing with Fire: Hume, Rationalism, and a Little Bit of Spinoza - Michael Della Rocca

- 22. Kant and Spinoza Debating the Third Antinomy - Omri Boehm

- 23. “Nothing Comes from Nothing”: Judaism, the Orient, and Kabbalah in Hegel's Reception of Spinoza - Paul Franks

- 24. Nietzsche and Spinoza: Enemy-Brothers - Yirmiyahu Yovel

- 25. Spinoza's Afterlife in Judaism and the Task of Modern Jewish Philosophy - Michael L. Morgan

- 26. Spinoza's Relevance to Contemporary Metaphysics - Samuel Newlands

- 27. Literary Spinoza - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Della Rocca is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He is the author of Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza (Oxford 1996), Spinoza (Routledge 2008), and numerous articles in contemporary metaphysics and in early modern philosophy.