What emerges is an original interpretation of Spinoza’s work that demonstrates his continued relevance to contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, and establishes connections to ...

Read More View Book Add to Cart The Collected Works of Spinoza ... This anthology of the work of Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677) presents the text of Spinoza's masterwork, the Ethics, in what is now the ...

Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been daunted, and sometimes been enchanted, by the geometrical method which he employs in his philosophical masterpiece the Ethics. In Meaning ... This ...

A young, nonconforming Spinoza was expelled from his religious community for heresy. His landmark “Ethics” had to be published posthumously. Why? Spinoza questioned the divine inspiration of ...

Key works about Spinoza’s critical role in the formation of modern Jewish identity Arguably, no historical thinker has had as varied and fractious a reception within modern Judaism as Baruch (Benedict ...

Benedict (Baruch) de Spinoza, Ethics (New York: Penguin Classics ... Hortense Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” in “Culture and Countermemory: The “American” Connection, ...

“You have devoted your life to the study of Spinoza’s banned works and the development of his ideas,” Serfaty wrote to Yitzhak Melamed. (JTA) — More than 350 years after Baruch Spinoza was ...

James Buchanan and Gordon Tullock’s The Calculus of Consent—published over sixty years ago in 1962—has been one of the most ...

The Center for the Study of Ethics in Society is hosting a series of book clubs during the Fall 2024 semester. Participants will purchase and read the books on their own, then join the discussion ...

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