Spinoza's Ethics / Benedictus de Spinoza; Clare Carlisle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spinoza, Benedictus de, Author.

Contributor:

Carlisle, Clare, Editor.

Eliot, George, 1819-1880.

Standardized Title:

Ethica. English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677. Ethica.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical workIn 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes. This would have become the first edition of Spinoza's controversial masterpiece in English, but the translation remained unpublished because of a disagreement between Lewes and the publisher. Later that year, Evans turned to fiction writing, and by 1859 she had published her first novel under the pseudonym George Eliot. This splendid edition makes Eliot's translation of the Ethics available to today's readers while also tracing Eliot's deep engagement with Spinoza both before and after she wrote the novels that established her as one of English literature's greatest writers.Clare Carlisle's introduction places the Ethics in its seventeenth-century context and explains its key philosophical claims. She discusses George Eliot's intellectual formation, her interest in Spinoza, the circumstances of her translation of the Ethics, and the influence of Spinoza's ideas on her literary work. Carlisle shows how Eliot drew on Spinoza's radical insights on religion, ethics, and human emotions, and brings to light surprising affinities between Spinoza's austere philosophy and the rich fictional worlds of Eliot's novels.This authoritative edition demonstrates why George Eliot's translation remains one of the most compelling and philosophically astute renderings of Spinoza's Latin text. It includes notes that indicate Eliot's amendments to her manuscript and that discuss her translation decisions alongside more recent English editions.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

George Eliot's Spinoza. An introduction

A Note on the Text

ETHICS

PART I. Of God

PART II. On the Nature and Origin of the Mind

PART III. On the Origin and Nature of the Emotions

PART IV. On the Servitude of Man and on the Power of the Passions

PART V. On the Power of the Intellect, or, On Human Liberty

APPENDIX 1. The Wise Woman

APPENDIX 2. Table of Emotions

APPENDIX 3. List of George Eliot's Revisions to Her Translation

Notes

Index of Names and Works

Subject Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691197043

0691197040

OCLC:

1120941888