Research Catalog

Title

Freedom, action, and motivation in Spinoza's Ethics / edited by Noa Naaman-Zauderer.

Publication

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

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Details

Additional Authors

Naaman Zauderer, Noa

Description

x, 255 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"The present volume posits the themes of freedom, action, and motivation as the central principles that drive Spinoza's Ethics from its first part to its last. It assembles essays by internationally leading scholars who provide different, sometimes opposing interpretations of these fundamental themes as they operate across the five parts of the Ethics and within its manifold domains. The diversity of issues, approaches, and perspectives within this volume, along with the chapters' common focus, open up new ways of understanding not only some of the key concepts and main objectives in the Ethics but also the threads unifying the entire work. The sequence of essays in the book broadly follows the order of the Ethics, providing up-to-date perspectives of Spinoza's views on freedom, action, and motivation in their ontological, cognitive, physical, affective, and ethical facets. This enables readers to engage with a variety of new interpretations of these key themes of the Ethics and to reconsider their consequences both for other related issues in the Ethics and for the relevance of the Ethics to contemporary trends in philosophy of action and motivation. The essays will contribute to the growing interest in Spinoza's Ethics and spark further discussion and debate within and outside the vast body of scholarship on this important work. Freedom, Action, and Motivation in Spinoza's Ethics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working on Spinoza and early modern philosophy"--

Series Statement

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 23

Uniform Title

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 23.

Subjects

• Liberty
• Motivation (Psychology)
• Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 > Ethica
• Ethics
• Act (Philosophy)
• Ethica (Spinoza, Benedictus de)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Noa Naaman-Zauderer -- Steps toward Eleaticism in Spinoza's philosophy of action / Michael Della Rocca -- Spinoza's activities : freedom without independence / Matthew J. Kisner -- Descartes and Spinoza on the primitive passions : why so different? / Lisa Shapiro -- Spinoza on the primary affects / John Carriero -- Affectivity and cognitive perfection / Lilli Alanen -- Deciding what to do: the relation of affect and reason in Spinoza's ethics / Donald Rutherford -- Materializing Spinoza's account of human freedom / Julie R. Klein -- Spinoza's values : joy, desire, and good in the ethics / Steven Nadler -- Spinoza on human freedoms and the eternity of the mind / Noa Naaman-Zauderer -- The enigma of Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis / Yitzhak Y. Melamed.

Call Number

JFE 20-2820

ISBN

• 9780367362249
• 0367362244
• 9780429350962 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000732467 (ePub ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000732245 (PDF ebook) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781000732351 (Mobipocket ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019032018

OCLC

1109764324

Title

Freedom, action, and motivation in Spinoza's Ethics / edited by Noa Naaman-Zauderer.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 23

Routledge studies in seventeenth-century philosophy ; 23.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Naaman Zauderer, Noa, editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Freedom, action, and motivation in spinoza's ethics 1. New York : Taylor & Francis, 2019. 9780429350962 (DLC) 2019032019

Research Call Number

JFE 20-2820