The young Spinoza : a metaphysician in the making / edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 1968- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Metaphysics.

Philosophers--Netherlands--Biography.

Philosophers.

Netherlands.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 360 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Ex nihilo nihil fit. Philosophy, especially great philosophy, does not appear out of the blue. In the current volume, a team of top scholars-both up-and-coming and established-attempts to trace the philosophical development of one of the greatest philosophers of all time. Featuring twenty new essays and an introduction, it is the first attempt of its kind in English and its appearance coincides with the recent surge of interest in Spinoza in Anglo-American philosophy. Book jacket.

Contents:

Spinoza's lost defense / Edwin Curley

Fictio-verziering (e) in Spinoza's early writings / Filippo Mignini

The problem of true ideas in Spinoza's Treatise on the emendation of the intellect / Alan Nelson

Truth in Spinoza's Treatise on the emendation of the intellect / John Morrison

Spinoza's rules of living / Michael LeBuffe

Leibniz on Spinoza's Tractatus de intellectus emendatione / Mogens Laerke

Spinoza's Cartesian dualism in the Korte verhandeling / Daniel Garber

Reason in the Short treatise / Colin Marshall

Spinoza's Calvin : reformed theology in the Korte verhandeling / Russ Leo

Spinoza, the will, and the ontology of power / John Carriero

Spinoza's essentialism in the Short treatise / Valtteri Viljanen

When was Spinoza not young any more? / Frédéric Manzini

Spinoza on eternity and duration : the 1663 connection / Tad M. Schmaltz

Spinoza on negation, mind-dependence, and the reality of the finite / Karlolina Hübner

Temporalities and kinds of cognition in the Treatise on the emendation of the intellect, the Short treatise, and the Ethics / Oded Schechter

Spinoza's early anti-abstractionism / Samuel Newlands

A glimpse into Spinoza's metaphysical laboratory : the development of the concepts of substance and attribute / Yitzhak Y. Melamed

From the passive to the active intellect / Ursula Renz

Degrees of essence and perfection in Spinoza / John Brandau

The young Spinoza and the Vatican manuscript of Spinoza's Ethics / Pina Totaro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199971664

0199971668

9780199971657

019997165X

OCLC:

900634238