A Companion to Spinoza

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-119-53867-7
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1106 g

A celebrated metaphysician, epistemologist, political philosopher, and a seminal figure of the Enlightenment, Benedict de Spinoza remains one of the most radical thinkers of the early modern period. Controversial in his time for his critiques of scripture, Spinoza is widely considered to be one of the great rationalists of the 17th century, and his thought has had a lasting influence on a range of fields including metaphysics, ethics, political theory, religion, and Judaism.

A Companion to Spinoza presents a panoramic view of contemporary Spinoza studies in Europe and across the Anglo-American world. Designed to stimulate productive dialogue between the analytic and continental traditions, this extraordinary volume brings together 53 original essays from an international team of established and emerging scholars which together explore Spinoza’s philosophy, legacy, and influence and advance new ideas to direct future research. Divided into six thematically organized sections, chapters examine Spinoza’s life and background, his contributions to metaphysics and natural philosophy, his epistemology, politics, ethics, and aesthetics, and his reception in the work of interlocutors such as Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Hegel.

Thoughtfully composed and expertly curated, A Companion to Spinoza is an unparalleled reference resource for researchers and scholars in Spinoza studies, students of modern philosophy, intellectual history, and the history of metaphysics, and general readers interested in the life and legacy of one of history’s most remarkable thinkers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melamed, Yitzhak Y

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 18. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors xi

List of Abbreviations xvii

Introduction xix
Yitzhak Y. Melamed

Part I Life and Background 1

1 Spinoza’s Life 3
Piet Steenbakkers

2 Spinoza Philology 15
Piet Steenbakkers

3 Avicenna and Spinoza on Essence and Existence 30
Stephen R. Ogden

4 Spinoza and Maimonides on True Religion 41
Warren Zev Harvey

5 Spinoza and Scholastic Philosophy 47
Emanuele Costa

6 Spinoza and Descartes 56
Denis Kambouchner

7 Spinoza’s Dutch Philosophical Background 68
Henri Krop Copyrighted Material

8 Spinoza and Hobbes 81
Michael LeBuffe

Part II Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy 93

9 Spinoza’s Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and Mode 95
Don Garrett

10 Spinoza and Eternity 108
Pierre-François Moreau

11 Spinoza on Causa Sui 116
Yitzhak Y. Melamed

12 Spinoza’s Physical Picture 126
John Carriero

13 Spinoza’s Mereology 135
Tad M. Schmaltz

14 Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Time 144
Raphael Krut-Landau

15 Spinoza’s Infinities 158
Luce deLire

16 Spinoza on Diachronic Identity 170
Dominik Perler

17 Spinoza on Relations 179
Zachary Gartenberg

18 Spinoza on Numerical Identity and Time 189
John Morrison

19 Spinoza on Universals 204
Karolina Hübner

20 Spinoza’s Ontology of Power 214
Juan Manuel Ledesma Viteri

21 Spinoza’s Modal Theory 222
Olli Koistinen

22 Spinoza on Determination 231
Noa Shein

23 Spinoza’s Physics 240
Alison Peterman

Part III Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Psychology 251

24 Spinoza on Human and Divine Knowledge 253
Ursula Renz and Barnaby R. Hutchins

25 Reflective Knowledge 265
Kristin Primus

26 Spinoza Against the Skeptics 276
Stephan Schmid

27 Spinoza on Ideas of Affections 286
Lia Levy

28 The Mind-Body Union 296
Chantal Jaquet

29 Spinoza’s Non-Theory of Non-Consciousness 304
Daniel Garber

30 Spinoza on the Passions and the Self 328
Andrea Sangiacomo

31 The Serpent and the Dove: Spinoza’s Two Paths to Enlightenment 338
Michah Gottlieb

Part IV Ethics, Politics, and Religion 349

32 Spinoza’s Moral Philosophy 351
Steven Nadler

33 Spinoza on the Constitution of Animal Species 365
Susan James

34 Essence, Virtue and the State 375
Erin Islo

35 Law and Dissolution of Law in Spinoza 384
Pina Totaro

36 Spinoza’s Notion of Freedom 394
Moira Gatens

37 Spinoza’s “Republican Idea of Freedom” 402
Michael A. Rosenthal

38 Spinoza and Economics 410
Eric Schliesser

39 Spinoza and Feminism 422
Hasana Sharp

40 Spinoza and International Law 431
Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck

41 The Intellectual Love of God 440
Clare Carlisle

42 Spinoza and Scripture 449
Dan Arbib

Part V Aesthetics and Language 463

43 Spinoza’s Aesthetics 465
Domenica G. Romagni

44 Following Traces in the Sand: Spinoza on Semiotics 474
Lorenzo Vinciguerra

45 Spinoza and the Grammar of the Hebrew Language 483
Guadalupe González Diéguez

Part VI Spinoza’s Reception 493

46 Leibniz and Spinoza on Plenitude and Necessity 495
Jean-Pascal Anfray

47 Spinoza in France, ca. 1670–1970 506
Mogens Lærke

48 Kant and Spinoza 517
Colin Marshall

49 Nietzsche and Spinoza 527
Jason M. Yonover

´50 Schelling with Spinoza on Freedom 538
Daniel Dragicévic

51 Hegel on Spinozism and the Beginning of Philosophy 548
José María Sánchez de León Serrano

52 Schopenhauer’s Critique of Spinoza’s Pantheism, Optimism, and Egoism 557
Mor Segev

53 Spinoza and Popular Philosophy 568
Jack Stetter Index 579

Über Autor(innen)

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.