Two books have been published in the series so far. The first is a fundamental unease with the way quantum mechanics is presented in standard text books. Spinozas philosophy is largely contained in two books. He find within spinoza many similarities to nietzsche.
A study of spinozas ethics second printing edition. Spinoza and spinozism edition 1 by stuart hampshire. Read persistence through time in spinoza by jason waller available from rakuten kobo. Almost everything has been tried in an effort to sound and weigh the exact amount of spinozism lessing betrayed in his conversations with jacobi. Henk barendregt is the author of the lambda calculus 4. The former was published during his lifetime, but the latter, which contains the entirety of his philosophical system in its most rigorous form, was not published until after his death in 1677. It is more in the genre of psychobiography, attempting to plumb the depths of spinozas character and claiming that he was far from the saintly but emotionally cool person of tradition. It appears that quantum mechanics gives a description of features that cannot be directly observed, called wave functions, in order to enable us to understand and predict outcomes of. What should i read to learn about spinozas philososphy.
In his introduction, the author mentions he visited places where spinoza lived and worked. See all irvin yalom videos purchase signed irvin yalom books. I heard about how its not an easy text and i find it hard. Uncorrected paperswallace matson 4 excellent essays on spinoza start there. Brandon look becoming who one is in spinoza and nietzsche i the connection between spinoza and nietzsche has often been remarked upon in the literature on the two thinkers. His works, translated into over 20 languages, have been widely read by therapists and nontherapists alike. Spinoza beyond philosophy lives up to its title and should be of interest to the inquisitive reader as well as to spinoza scholars. Baruch spinoza was born to portuguese jews living in exile in holland, but his life among the marranos there was often unsettled. Published shortly after his death, the ethics is undoubtedly spinozas.
Hendrik barendregt 1947 studied mathematical logic in 1971 at utrecht university. Vipassana retreat with henk barendregt kalikalos holistic network. I asked the students in my seminar to write a longer paper on our three philosophers and then joined in the fun and wrote one myself. Hendrik pieter henk barendregt born 18 december 1947, amsterdam is a dutch logician. Mindfulness reduces habitual responding based on implicit. On february 6, 2003, barendregt was awarded the spinozapremie for. What is known is that the young spinoza fell under the influence of several men, each of whom helped, in some cases perhaps inadvertently, to propel him away from established judaism. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
Despite an early rabbinical education, he was expelled from the synagogue at amsterdam for defending heretical opinions in 1656. The oldest recorded birth by the social security administration for the name spinoza is wednesday, december 25th, 1940. A study of spinozas ethics, 1984, jonathan bennett. His best known works in logic are the lambda calculus, its syntax and semantics translated into russian and chinese, 1981, elsevier, and lambda calculus with types, 20, cambridge university press. Spinozas life he belonged to the community of jews from spain and portugal who had fled the inquisition. Today, spinoza is considered one of the great rationalists of the 17thcentury philosophy, laying the groundwork for the 18th century enlightenment and modern. Among the innumerable treasures the nazis stole from europe during world war ii was a collection of books displayed at the spinoza museum in. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles.
Henk barendregt, 97867451960, 67451968,97867451960. This book concerns the nature of time and ordinary cases of persistence in spinoza. Interpreting spinoza critical essays, charlie huenemann, feb 21, 2008, philosophy, 196 pages. The spinoza problem is a highly intriguing exploration of the connections between a jewish philosopher and a nazi ideologue. Hampshires classic 1951 book spinoza remains the best introduction to this thinker, and it is reprinted here.
When his rabbi offered him a pension to stop writing and tow the line he replied, i thank you for the trouble you took teaching me hebrew and ill return the favor by teaching you excommunication a man much misunderstood in his time, though time the great healer has now rectified that. Henk barendregt studied from 1972 to 1979 zen meditation with kobun. Henk barendregt hendrik barendregt 1947 studied mathematical logic in 1971 at utrecht university, where he received his doctorate cum laude in 1971 under dirk van dalen and georg kreisel. Lambda calculus with types henk barendregt, wil dekkers. But, even if the text was translated in my native tongue french, it was as understandable as if it was in the original latin. This volume contains in translation the main writings relative to the famous pantheism debate between jacobi and mendelssohn, which was prompted by jacobis. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. The collected works of spinoza provides, for the first time in english, a truly satisfactory edition of all of spinozas writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the originallanguage texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosophers work. Irvin yalom does a masterful job in bringing to life spinoza and his philosophy and connecting it to the apocalyptic. In betraying spinoza, rebecca newberger goldstein sets out to rediscover the fleshandblood man often buried beneath the veneer of rigorous rationality and to provide a comprehensive cultural and religious context for the formation of his ideas. After reading these essays and the others one should tackle the books by both deleuze and strauss on spinoza. Whereas studies of spinoza in english have emphasized the logic of the ethics, these essays instead focus on the marginal and developmental moments that have had such a profound effect on french thought.
He found, for himself, that the chief good is knowledge. Nijmegen university 1997 and the spinoza award in 2002 from the dutch national science foundation nwo. It is a discussion and illustration of spinozas on the improvement of the understanding. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Baruch spinoza 163277 remains one of the most important but also, paradoxically, neglected of all the great enlightenment philosophers. On 6 february 2003 barendregt was awarded the spinozapremie for 2002, the highest. Yalom is the author of several professional works and a novelist who has introduced three different philosophers into his fictionfirst nietzsche, then schopenhauer and now spinoza.
Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new customers receive 15% off your. The philosophy of spinoza is increasingly recognised as holding a position of crucial importance and influence in early modern thought, and in previous years has been the focus. Baruch spinoza has 178 books on goodreads with 118128 ratings. Zalerts allow you to be notified by email about the availability of new books according to your search query. As a last name spinoza was the 1,379 th most popular name in 2010. The precise circumstances which finally led in 1656 to spinozas excommunication from the jewish community as a heretic are not clear. Yalom imaginative and erudite sums up the spinoza problem a therapist and a professor of psychiatry at stanfords school of medicine, irvin d. Persistence through time in spinoza ebook by jason waller. Spinoza biography by margaret gullanwhur spinozaauthor. List of books and articles about spinoza online research.
The splendidly researched biography by margaret gullanwhur presents a very different picture and is a very different kind of book. In the event things got worse, and spinoza gave up the idea of publishing the ethics, believing that it would create such a cloud of hostility as to obscure, in the minds even of reasonable people, the real meaning of its arguments. The spinoza conversations between lessing and jacobi. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or anything else. His work remains as resonant and provocative today as it was when it first appeared.
Spinozas scandalous treatise and the birth of the secular age 2011, the philosopher, the priest, and the painter. But what gives particular interest to this new volume is the first publication of hampshires last work spinoza and spinozism, an extended presentation of a spinozist philosophical worldview. For the past few years i have been looking for spinoza, sometimes in books, sometimes in places, and that is why i am here today. The lambda calculus, its syntax and semantics studies in. Dave mesing chantal jaquet, affects, actions, and passions in spinoza trans. A life of spinoza testifies to the difficulty of producing a biography of this paradigmatically difficult man. These philosophers explore spinozas most important themes in detail, opening up new possibilities for reading and interpreting spinoza. Fabio giommi, henk barendregt vipassana, insight and intuition. Spinoza, was one of the first in biblical criticism, and for his pains, was excommunicated. In what ways are the philosophies of spinoza and nietzsche. To see the presence of spinoza, louis althusser once quipped, one must at least have heard of him. When was the first name spinoza first recorded in the united states. The essays collected in this volume suggest that what applies to althusser applies to his whole generation that spinoza is an unsuspected but very real presence in the work of contemporary philosophers from deleuze and lacan to foucault and derrida.
All this gives irvin yalom plenty room to weave his fictional accounts. Rotterdam20 saturn the dhamma quest as book uitnodiging. The spinoza problem, by irvin yalom the washington post. This book is almost an encyclopedia of typefree lambda calculus. The stone in a former graveyard, does not mark the exact place of his grave. However, some of the essays treat more familiar topics in.
A great little book on spinoza is deleuzes spinoza. Also included in this collection, btw, are essays by luce irigaray, emilia giancotti, pierre macherey, and alexander matheron. Lessings spinozism looms up out of the numerous intellectual riddles of the past. When nietzsche wept, lying on the couch, the schopenhauer cure, and the spinoza problem. Deleuze sees both spinoza and nietzsche as philosophers who saw the world in terms of power relations. Vittorio morfino, the spinozamachiavelli encounter trans. The philosophy of spinoza by baruch spinoza and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Leonard cohen, the partisan spinoza is quoted approvingly for instance, by deleuze in his expressionism in philosophy. The latesummer passion of a woman of mind by rebecca goldstein. A curious pastime, as you can see, and one that i had never.
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