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Spinoza's Book of Life - Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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Spinoza's Book of Life - Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics (Hardcover, New)
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Most readers of Spinoza treat him as a pure metaphysician, a grim
determinist, or a stoic moralist, but none of these descriptions
captures the author of the Ethics, argues Steven B. Smith in this
intriguing book. Offering a new reading of Spinoza's masterpiece,
Smith asserts that the Ethics is a celebration of human freedom and
its attendant joys and responsibilities and should be placed among
the great founding documents of the Enlightenment. Two aspects of
Smith's book distinguish it from other studies. It treats the
famous "geometrical method" of the Ethics as a form of moral
rhetoric, a model for the construction of individuality. And it
presents the Ethics as a companion to Spinoza's major work of
political philosophy, the Theologico-Political Treatise, each work
helping to explore the problem of freedom. Affirming Spinoza's
centrality for both critics and defenders of modernity, the book
will be of value to students of political theory, philosophy, and
intellectual history.
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