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Spinoza by Michael Della Rocca is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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(Author's Preface)In offering this comprehensive account of Spinoza’s philosophical thought, I have in mind those coming to Spinoza for the first time. I hope to be able to kindle in these readers the same joy I felt on being introduced to Spinoza more than 25 years ago. I believe that I have found a key—in the shape of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—that will go a very long way toward making Spinoza’s thought both more accessible and exciting. At the same time, I hope that this work will also be of real interest to scholars, philosophers, and advanced students. Because the book is designed to serve as an introduction to Spinoza, I do not engage the secondary literature directly in any extensive way, but my thinking is obviously very much informed by and indebted to recent and notso-recent scholarly debates. Rethinking Spinoza in light of the Principle of Sufficient Reason promises to be important not only for our understanding of Spinoza, but also for our understanding of the philosophical issues Spinoza deals with and that continue to trouble philosophers today. The contemporary debates over these issues suffer, in my opinion, from a lack of systematic attention to the power
Who reads Spinoza?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Michael Della Rocca
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Social Science, Ancient & Medieval Philosophy, Social_sciences