Spinoza: Issues and Directions : the Proceedings of the Chicago Spinoza Conference, [1986]

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Edwin M. Curley, Pierre-François Moreau
BRILL, 1990 - Philosophy - 404 pages
The proceedings of the first major international conference on the philosophy of Spinoza to be held in the United States are published here. Contained are papers on all aspects of Spinoza's thought by 31 distinguished scholars from the United States, Europe, Israel and Australia including Jonathan Bennett, Alan Donagan, Margaret Wilson, Amélie Rorty, Richard Popkin, Jean-Marie Beyssade, Alexandre Matheron, Étienne Balibar, Pierre Macherey, Emilia Giancotti, Hubertus Hubbeling, and Yirmiyahu Yovel.Topics discussed are Metaphysics, Epistemology and Philosophy of Mind, Psychology, Moral, Political and Social Philosophy, and Spinoza's influence,
 

Contents

Roger Ariew The Infinite in Spinozas Philosophy
16
Willis Doney Gueroult on Spinozas Proof of Gods Existence
32
the Issue of Teleology
39
PSYCHOLOGY
40
a Reply to Curley
53
Reflections
77
EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
102
Genevieve Lloyd Spinoza on the Distinction
113
José Benardete Therapeutics and Hermeneutics
209
MORAL POLITICAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
221
Emilia Giancotti Théorie et pratique de la liberté au jour
239
Alexandre Matheron Le problème de lévolution de Spinoza
258
Lee Rice Individual and Community
271
Manfred Walther Negri on Spinozas Political
286
PierreFrançois Moreau Fortune et théorie de lhistoire
298
André Tosel Yatil une philosophie du progrès historique
306

Spinozas Theory
124
Filippo Mignini In Order to Interpret Spinozas Theory
136
Herman De Dijn Wisdom and Theoretical Knowledge in Spinoza
147
Yirmiyahu Yovel The Third Kind of Knowledge
157
JeanMarie Beyssade De lémotion intérieure chez Descartes
176
De lémotion
191
Pierre Macherey Spinoza la fin de lhistoire
327
SPINOZAS INFLUENCE
356
George Kline Pierre Machereys Hegel ou Spinoza
373
Hubertus Hubbeling Spinozism and Spinozistic Studies
381
Index of Proper Names
395
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Edwin M. Curley is professor of philosophy at the University of Michigan and editor and translator of Spinozas "Collected Works."

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