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Spinoza to the letter : studies in words, texts and books / edited by Fokke Akkerman and Piet Steenbakkers.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 137.
- Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 137
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- French
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677--Language.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2005.
- Language Note:
- In English, French, German, and Dutch.
- Summary:
- This is the first collection of Spinoza studies that deals exclusively with the language, style, and the transmission and editing of his texts. It includes investigations into the authorship of some minor texts, Spinoza’s Latinity, the Hebrew passages in the Tractatus theologico-politicus , his way of handling quotations and his use of the first person singular. It contains a full concordance of the Tractatus de intellectus emendatione , an inventory of the copies of Spinoza’s Posthumous Works in the Netherlands and an account of the editions produced in the nineteenth century. In addition, there are essays on the life and thought of Spinoza’s publisher Jan Rieuwertsz, on the question of who printed his books, and on principles and choices in editing. Contributors include: Fokke Akkerman, Wout Jac. van Bekkum, Michelle Beyssade, Eugenio Canone, Johan Gerritsen, Iiro Kajanto, Jelle Kingma, Jacqueline Lagrée, J.H. Leopold, Clasina G. Manusov-Verhage, Filippo Mignini, Pierre-François Moreau, H.J.M. Nellen, Michael John Petry, Esmée Schilte, Hans Gerhard Senger, Piet Steenbakkers, Pina Totaro, and J.J.V.M. de Vet.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Fokke Akkerman and Piet Steenbakkers
- Discours d’ouverture / Pierre-François Moreau
- Le langage de Spinoza et sa pratique du discours / J.H. Leopold
- Spinoza’s Latinity / Iiro Kajanto
- Deux latinistes : Descartes et Spinoza / Michelle Beyssade
- Index locorum du Tractatus de intellectus emendatione / Eugenio Canone and Pina Totaro
- La citation dans le Traité théologico-politique / Jacqueline Lagrée
- La terminologie du «Je» dans le Traité théologico-politique / Pierre-François Moreau
- Quelques remarques sur les mots et citations hébraïques dans le Tractatus theologico-politicus / Wout Jac. van Bekkum
- Algebra, chances and the rainbow / Michael John Petry
- Salomon Dierquens, auteur du Stelkonstige reeckening van den regenboog et du Reeckening van kanssen / J.J.V.M. de Vet
- Le texte du Tractatus de intellectus emendatione et sa transmission / Filippo Mignini
- Tractatus theologico-politicus: texte latin, traductions néerlandaises et Adnotationes / Fokke Akkerman
- Jan Rieuwertsz, marchand libraire et éditeur de Spinoza / Clasina G. Manusov-Verhage
- Printing Spinoza – some questions / Johan Gerritsen
- Spinoza’s Posthumous Works: an inventory of the copies now in the Netherlands / Esmée Schilte and Piet Steenbakkers
- Spinoza editions in the nineteenth century / Jelle Kingma
- On editing the correspondence of Hugo Grotius / H.J.M. Nellen
- Vollständigkeit oder pragmatische Begrenzung der Editionen? / Hans Gerhard Senger
- Works cited / Fokke Akkerman and Piet Steenbakkers
- Index of names / Fokke Akkerman and Piet Steenbakkers.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-474-1636-8
- OCLC:
- 63267064
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047416364 DOI
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