Spinoza Today: The Current State of Spinoza Scholarship

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Notes

¹ See Israel, Radical Enlightenment (2001); Moreau, Problèmes du spinozisme (2006).

² See Schröder, Spinoza in der deutschen Frühaufklärung (1999); Pätzold, Spinoza – Aufklärung – Idealismus (2002); Morfino, La Spinoza‐Renaissance nella Germania di fine settecento (1998).

³ See a number of the papers in Pisarek and Walther (eds), Kontext: Spinoza und die Geschichte der Philosophie (2001); For investigations into Spinoza’s general intellectual legacy, see also Goetschel, Spinoza’s Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine (2004).

⁴ See Montag and Stolze, The New Spinoza (1997).

⁵ Gueroult, Spinoza: Dieu (1968); Spinoza: L’âme (1974); Matheron, Individu et communauté chez Spinoza (1969); Le Christ et le salut des ignorants chez Spinoza (1971); Rousset, La perspective finale de l’Ethique (1968).

⁶ Deleuze, Spinoza et le problème de l’expression (1968); Spinoza, Philosophie pratique (1970); Misrahi, Le désir et la réflexion dans la philosophie de Spinoza (1972).

⁷ The standard critical edition of Spinoza’s works, edited by Carl Gebhardt (Spinoza, Opera 1924–6. Reprinted in 1973) is based on a careful comparison of Spinoza’s Latin texts with the contemporary Dutch translations included in De Nagelate Schriften of 1677, which appear at least in part to have been translated from manuscripts, and differ from the surviving Latin at numerous points (see Sutcliffe 2005: 367). A digital version of Spinoza, Opera is forthcoming from InteLex.

⁸ All of Shirley’s translations have been brought together in one volume, The Complete Works (2002).

⁹ See Ramond, 1995; Lazzeri, 1999.

¹⁰ See Margaret Jacob, The Radical Enlightenment (1981). The term ‘Radical Enlightenment’ refers to the ensemble of heterodox currents of thought that ‘existed simultaneously and in harsh dialogue with the more dominant and moderate version of enlightened belief and practice’ (25).

¹¹ See also, Steven Nadler, Spinoza’s Theory of Divine Providence (2005) and Genevieve Lloyd, Providence Lost (2008).

¹² See Mathias Jung, Spinoza. Gott ist Natur – Natur ist Gott (2005).

¹³ There is a recent English translation of Van den Enden’s Vrije politijke Stellingen (1665) by Wim Klewer (2007).

¹⁴ There is a recent translation of Lodewijk Meyer’s Philosophy as the interpreter of Holy Scripture (1666) by Samuel Shirley (2005).

¹⁵ See the collection Critique, savoir et érudition à la veille des lumières le ‘Dictionaire Historique et Critique’ de Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), edited by Hans Bots (1998).