Böcker av Michael Della Rocca

Until recently, Baruch Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has only seemed to confirm Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. While the 26 essays in this volume--by many of the world's leading Spinoza specialists--grapple directly with Spinoza's most important arguments, these essays also seek to identify and explain Spinoza's debts to previous philosophy, his influence on later philosophers, and his significance for contemporary philosophy and for humanity.

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was one of towering philosophers of the seventeenth century. Offering an introduction to Spinoza's philosophy, this book takes Spinoza's fundamental argument that everything exists for a reason - known as his 'principle of sufficient reason' - as the key to unlocking his thought.