| Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Spinoza and the Ethics Contributor(s): Lloyd, Genevieve (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415107814 ISBN-13: 9780415107815 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $118.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1996 Annotation: 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 GuideBook provides an overview of critical interpretations, relating the "Ethics" to its intellectual context, considers its historical reception; and highlights why the work 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General |
| Dewey: 170 |
| LCCN: 96006392 |
| Lexile Measure: 1310 |
| Series: Religion in the First Christian Centuries |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.32" W x 7.88" (0.62 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |