Spinoza, Life and Legacy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 August 2023
- ISBN 9780198857488
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages1344 pages
- Size 240x165x60 mm
- Weight 1618 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 63 images 627
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A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, examining the man's life, relationships, career, and writings, while forcing us to rethink how we previously understood his reception in the fields of philosophy, religion, ethics, and political theory in his own time and in the years following his death.
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A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following his death.
The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if often concealed, impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers, historians, and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza, the man and his work, in the years immediately after his death in 1677, dominated much of his early reception owing to the revolutionary implications of his thought for philosophy, religion, practical ethics and lifestyle, Bible criticism, and political theory. Nevertheless, contrary to what has sometimes been maintained, his general impact was immediate, very widespread, and profound. One of the main objectives of the book is to show how early and how deeply Leibniz, Bayle, Arnauld, Henry More, Anne Conway, Richard Baxter, Robert Boyle, Henry Oldenburg, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Richard Simon, and Nicholas Steno, among many others, were affected by and led to wrestle with his principal ideas.
There have been surprisingly few biographies of Spinoza, given his fundamental importance in intellectual history and history of philosophy, Bible criticism, and political thought. Jonathan I. Israel has written a biography which provides more detail and context about Spinoza's life, family, writings, circle of friends, highly unusual career and networking, and early reception than its predecessors. Weaving the circumstances of his life and thought into a detailed biography has also led to several notable instances of nuancing or revising our notions of how to interpret certain of his assertions and philosophical claims, and how to understand the complex international reaction to his work during his life-time and in the years immediately following his death.
Monumental...a brilliant biography... Jonathan Israel has more than done justice to this ultimately elusive genius
Table of Contents:
Part I: Setting the Scene
Introduction
Unparalleled Challenge
Part II: The Young Spinoza
Youthful Rebel
Secret Legacy from Portugal
Childhood and Family Tradition
Schooldays
Honour and Wealth
Teaching Skills: Van den Enden (1656-1661), Latin, and the Theatre
Collegiants, Millenarians, and Quakers: the Mid- and Late 1650s
'Monstrous Heresies': Ties with Marrano Deists
Part III: Reformer and Subverter of Descartes
Forming a Study Group
Rijnsburg Years (1661-63)
Spinoza and the Scientific Revolution
'Reforming' Descartes' Principles
Writing the Ethics
Voorburg
Spinoza and the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664-1667)
Invasion, Slump, and Comets (1665-66)
Spinoza, Meyer, and The 1666 Philosophia Controversy
From the Jaws of Defeat
Part IV: Darkening Horizons
The Tragedy of the Brothers Koerbagh (1668-1669)
Nil Volentibus Arduum: Spinoza and the Arts
Twilight of the 'True Freedom'
Revolution in Bible Criticism
Spinoza Subverts Hobbes
Publishing the Theological-Political Treatise
Intensifying Reaction (early 1670s)
Spinoza's Libertine '"French Circle'
Reshaping the Republic: from Oligarchic to Democratic Republicanism
Part V: Last Years
Disaster Year (1672)
Denying the Supernatural
Entering (or Not Entering) Princely Court Culture (1672-73)
Creeping Diffusion
Mysterious Trip to Utrecht (July-August 1673)
Expanding the 'Spinozist Sect'
Amsterdam Revisited (1673-75)
Hebrew in Spinoza's Later Life
Encounter with Leibniz (1676)
Fighting Back
Last Days, Death, and Funeral (1677)
A Stormy Aftermath
Conclusion: Philosophy integrated with Bible Critique and Political Theory
Spinoza, Life and Legacy
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