Until recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of
philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog."
However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza
has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. This
resurgence is due in no small part to the recent revival of
metaphysics in contemporary philosophy and to the increased
appreciation of Spinoza's role as an unorthodox, pivotal figure -
indeed, perhaps the pivotal figure - in the development of
Enlightenment thinking. Spinoza's penetrating articulation of his
extreme rationalism makes him a demanding philosopher who offers
deep and prescient challenges to all subsequent, inevitably less
radical approaches to philosophy. While the twenty-six 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 us.
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