Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Spinoza and the Ethics (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) - Hardcover

Lloyd, Genevieve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415107814 ISBN 13: 9780415107815

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Spinoza is a key figure in modern philosophy. Ethics is his most studied and well known work. Being both up-to-date and clear, this Guidebook is designed to lead the reader through this complex seminal text.
Spinoza's Ethics introduces and assess:
* Spinoza'a life, and its connection with his thought
* The text of the Ethics
* Spinoza's continuing relevence to contemporary philosophy

About this title

About the Author:

Genevieve Lloyd is at the University of New South Wales.

Review:

..."contains a number of striking thematic insights...engagingly written and rewardingly focused...Readily accessible to its intended audience, the book will also be of considerable interest to more advanced students and philosophers as a further expression of Lloyd's distinctive reading of Spinoza."
-"Ethics
"Lloyd has many important insights. She emphasizes the plentitude of substance, the identity of thought and reality, intuitive knoledge, the irreducible particularity have been forgotten.."
-"Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques
"I do believe that this book can provide clear guidance to the first-time reader while challenging the veteran Spinozist with its impressive interpretive insight. The book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to one of philosophy's most challenging works."
-Professor J. Thomas Cook, Rollins College
"I have read "Spinoza and the Ethics with great pleasure an am deeply impressed. It discusses an exceptionally wide range of poast and present readings of the "Ethics, so that the reader gains a sense of the many angles from which this text has been approached ... It offers an interpretation of the whole of the "Ethics, and culminates in a fascinating and nuanced discussion of it final section about the intellectual love of God. Most importantly, it develops a distinctive and insightful account which aims both to do justice to Spinoza's own philosophical aspirations, and to relate these to our own."
-Susan James, Girton College, Cambridge
"This well-crafted and pithy introduction to "Ethics, intended for students coming to Spinoza for the first time, ranks with the best of its kind to appear since Hampshire'sclassic "Spinoza (1951)."
-"Religious Studies Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415107814
• ISBN 13: 9780415107815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176