Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Spinoza and the Ethics
Author(s): Genevieve Lloyd
Written for students coming to Spinoza for the first time, Spinoza and the Ethics is the ideal guide to this rich and illuminating work. This book provides an overview of critical interpretations, relating the Ethics to its intellectual context; considers its historical reception; and highlights why the book continues to be relevant today. In addition, the most intriguing final sections of the Ethics, usually ignored in introductory commentaries, are given special attention and illuminated as the climax of the work. Spinoza and the Ethics is the most up-to-date and accessible introduction for students to Spinoza's most important text.
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...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.
General Fields
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- : Taylor & Francis Ltd
- : Routledge
- : 05 September 1996
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Genevieve Lloyd
- : Paperback
- : 170.92
- : 176
