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A Companion to Spinoza
Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Edited by), Y Melamed (Author)
9781119538677, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 3 December 2025
608 pages
24.9 x 17.8 x 3.3 cm, 0.862 kg
A celebrated metaphysician, epistemologist, political philosopher, and a seminal figure of the Enlightenment, Benedict de Spinoza remains one of the most radical thinkers of the early modern period. Controversial in his time for his critiques of scripture, Spinoza is widely considered to be one of the great rationalists of the 17th century, and his thought has had a lasting influence on a range of fields including metaphysics, ethics, political theory, religion, and Judaism. A Companion to Spinoza presents a panoramic view of contemporary Spinoza studies in Europe and across the Anglo-American world. Designed to stimulate productive dialogue between the analytic and continental traditions, this extraordinary volume brings together 53 original essays from an international team of established and emerging scholars which together explore Spinoza’s philosophy, legacy, and influence and advance new ideas to direct future research. Divided into six thematically organized sections, chapters examine Spinoza’s life and background, his contributions to metaphysics and natural philosophy, his epistemology, politics, ethics, and aesthetics, and his reception in the work of interlocutors such as Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, and Hegel. Thoughtfully composed and expertly curated, A Companion to Spinoza is an unparalleled reference resource for researchers and scholars in Spinoza studies, students of modern philosophy, intellectual history, and the history of metaphysics, and general readers interested in the life and legacy of one of history’s most remarkable thinkers.
Notes on Contributors xi List of Abbreviations xvii Introduction xix Part I Life and Background 1 1 Spinoza’s Life 3 2 Spinoza Philology 15 3 Avicenna and Spinoza on Essence and Existence 30 4 Spinoza and Maimonides on True Religion 41 5 Spinoza and Scholastic Philosophy 47 6 Spinoza and Descartes 56 7 Spinoza’s Dutch Philosophical Background 68 8 Spinoza and Hobbes 81 Part II Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy 93 9 Spinoza’s Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and Mode 95 10 Spinoza and Eternity 108 11 Spinoza on Causa Sui 116 12 Spinoza’s Physical Picture 126 13 Spinoza’s Mereology 135 14 Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Time 144 15 Spinoza’s Infinities 158 16 Spinoza on Diachronic Identity 170 17 Spinoza on Relations 179 18 Spinoza on Numerical Identity and Time 189 19 Spinoza on Universals 204 20 Spinoza’s Ontology of Power 214 21 Spinoza’s Modal Theory 222 22 Spinoza on Determination 231 23 Spinoza’s Physics 240 Part III Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Psychology 251 24 Spinoza on Human and Divine Knowledge 253 25 Reflective Knowledge 265 26 Spinoza Against the Skeptics 276 27 Spinoza on Ideas of Affections 286 28 The Mind‐Body Union 296 29 Spinoza’s Non‐Theory of Non‐Consciousness 304 30 Spinoza on the Passions and the Self 328 31 The Serpent and the Dove: Spinoza’s Two Paths to Enlightenment 338 Part IV Ethics, Politics, and Religion 349 32 Spinoza’s Moral Philosophy 351 33 Spinoza on the Constitution of Animal Species 365 34 Essence, Virtue and the State 375 35 Law and Dissolution of Law in Spinoza 384 36 Spinoza’s Notion of Freedom 394 37 Spinoza’s “Republican Idea of Freedom” 402 38 Spinoza and Economics 410 39 Spinoza and Feminism 422 40 Spinoza and International Law 431 41 The Intellectual Love of God 440 42 Spinoza and Scripture 449 Part V Aesthetics and Language 463 43 Spinoza’s Aesthetics 465 44 Following Traces in the Sand: Spinoza on Semiotics 474 45 Spinoza and the Grammar of the Hebrew Language 483 Part VI Spinoza’s Reception 493 46 Leibniz and Spinoza on Plenitude and Necessity 495 47 Spinoza in France, ca. 1670–1970 506 48 Kant and Spinoza 517 49 Nietzsche and Spinoza 527 ́50 Schelling with Spinoza on Freedom 538 51 Hegel on Spinozism and the Beginning of Philosophy 548 52 Schopenhauer’s Critique of Spinoza’s Pantheism, Optimism, and Egoism 557 53 Spinoza and Popular Philosophy 568
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Piet Steenbakkers
Piet Steenbakkers
Stephen R. Ogden
Warren Zev Harvey
Emanuele Costa
Denis Kambouchner
Henri Krop Copyrighted Material
Michael LeBuffe
Don Garrett
Pierre‐François Moreau
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
John Carriero
Tad M. Schmaltz
Raphael Krut‐Landau
Luce deLire
Dominik Perler
Zachary Gartenberg
John Morrison
Karolina Hübner
Juan Manuel Ledesma Viteri
Olli Koistinen
Noa Shein
Alison Peterman
Ursula Renz and Barnaby R. Hutchins
Kristin Primus
Stephan Schmid
Lia Levy
Chantal Jaquet
Daniel Garber
Andrea Sangiacomo
Michah Gottlieb
Steven Nadler
Susan James
Erin Islo
Pina Totaro
Moira Gatens
Michael A. Rosenthal
Eric Schliesser
Hasana Sharp
Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck
Clare Carlisle
Dan Arbib
Domenica G. Romagni
Lorenzo Vinciguerra
Guadalupe González Diéguez
Jean‐Pascal Anfray
Mogens Lærke
Colin Marshall
Jason M. Yonover
Daniel Dragicévic
José María Sánchez de León Serrano
Mor Segev
Jack Stetter Index 579
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
