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Spinoza's Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza (editor); Clare Carlisle (editor); George Eliot (editor) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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An authoritative edition of George Eliot's elegant translation of Spinoza's greatest philosophical work In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza's Ethics while living in Berlin with the philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes. This would have become the first edition of Spinoza's controversial masterpiece in English, but the translation remained unpublished because of a disagreement between Lewes and the publisher. Later that year, Evans turned to fiction writing, and by 1859 she had published her first novel under the pseudonym George Eliot. This splendid edition makes Eliot's translation of the Ethics available to today's readers while also tracing Eliot's deep engagement with Spinoza both before and after she wrote the novels that established her as one of English literature's greatest writers. Clare Carlisle's introduction places the Ethics in its seventeenth-century context and explains its key philosophical claims. She discusses George Eliot's intellectual formation, her interest in Spinoza, the circumstances of her translation of the Ethics , and the influence of Spinoza's ideas on her literary work. Carlisle shows how Eliot drew on Spi

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Author

Benedictus de Spinoza (editor); Clare Carlisle (editor); George Eliot (editor)

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691197043

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Criticism, History

Rating

4.7 / 5 (56 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14