Spinoza’s Works

• Spinoza Opera, edited by Carl Gebhardt, 5 volumes (Heidelberg: Carl Winters, 1925, 1972 [volume 5, 1987]). Abbreviated in SEP entry as G. Note: A new critical edition of Spinoza’s writings is now being prepared by the Groupe de recherches spinoziste; this will eventually replace Gebhardt. As of July 2012, four volumes have appeared: Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Tractatus Politicus, Ethica and Premiers écrits, all published by Presses Universitaires de France.
• Spinoza, Benedictus, The Collected Writings of Spinoza, 2 vols., Edwin Curley, translator (Princeton: Princeton University Press, vol. 1: 1985; vol. 2: 2016). The Ethics is in vol. 1; the Theological Political Treatise is in vol. 2.
• Spinoza, Baruch, The Complete Works, Samuel Shirley, translator (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2002).

Recommended Secondary Literature in English

Note: There is an enormous body of literature on Spinoza in many languages, especially French, Italian, Dutch and German. This is a highly selective list of books in English that are especially helpful for the study of Spinoza’s philosophy in general, as well as for learning more about particular dimensions of his thought. There is also the irregularly published series Studia Spinozana, each volume of which contains essays by scholars devoted to a particular theme.

• Allison, Henry, 1987. Benedict de Spinoza: An Introduction, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Balibar, Etienne, 1998. Spinoza and Politics, London: Verso. (Scholar)
• Bennett, Jonathan, 1984. A Study of Spinoza’s Ethics, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing. (Scholar)
• Curley, Edwin, 1969. Spinoza’s Metaphysics: An Essay in Interpretation, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 1988. Behind the Geometric Method, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Della Rocca, Michael, 2008. Spinoza, London and New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Donagan, Alan, 1988. Spinoza, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Garrett, Don (ed.), 1996. The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Goff, Philip (ed.), 2012. Spinoza on Monism, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Scholar)
• Huenemann, Charlie (ed.), 2008. Interpreting Spinoza: Critical Essays, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• James, Susan, 2012. Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theological-Political Treatise, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kisner, Matthew J., 2011. Spinoza on Human Freedom: Reason, Autonomy and the Good Life, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Kisner, Matthew J. and Andrew Youpa (eds.), 2014. Essays on Spinoza’s Ethical Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Koistinen, Olli (ed.), 2009. The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza’s Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Koistinen, Olli and John Biro (eds.), 2002. Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• LeBuffe, Michael, 2010. From Bondage to Freedom: Spinoza on Human Excellence, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017. Spinoza on Reason, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Lin, Martin, 2019. Being and Reason: An Essay on Spinoza’s Metaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Lord, Beth, 2010. Spinoza’s Ethics: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• Marshall, Eugene, 2013. The Spiritual Automaton: Spinoza’s Science of the Mind, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Melamed, Yitzhak, 2013. Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Melamed, Yitzhak and Michael A. Rosenthal (eds.), 2010. Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Nadler, Steven, 1999 [2018]. Spinoza: A Life, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition, 2018.
• –––, 2002. Spinoza’s Heresy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006. Spinoza’s Ethics: An Introduction, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011. A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2020. Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Newlands, Sam, 2018. Reconceiving Spinoza, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Popkin, Richard, 2004. Spinoza, Oxford: One World. (Scholar)
• Preus, J. Samuel, 2001. Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Ravven, Heidi and Leonard E. Goodman (eds.), 2002. Jewish Themes in Spinoza’s Philosophy, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Renz, Ursula, 2018, The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza’s Theory of the Human Mind, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Sangiacomo, Andrea, 2020. Spinoza on Reason, Passions and the Supreme Good, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Smith, Steven B., 1997. Spinoza, Liberalism and the Question of Jewish Identity, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2003. Spinoza’s Book of Life, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Van Bunge, Wiep, Henri Krop, Piet Steenbakkers and Jeroen van de Ven (eds.), 2011. The Bloomsbury Companion to Spinoza, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Viljanen, Valtteri, 2011. Spinoza’s Geometry of Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Verbeek, Theo, 2003. Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise: Exploring ‘the Will of God’, London: Ashgate. (Scholar)
• Wolfson, Harry, 1934. The Philosophy of Spinoza, 2 vols., Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Youpa, Andrew, 2020. The Ethics of Joy: Spinoza on the Empowered Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Yovel, Yirmiyahu, 1989. Spinoza and Other Heretics, 2 vols., Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1991. God and Nature: Spinoza’s Metaphysics, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1994. Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind, Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 1999. Desire and Affect: Spinoza as Psychologist, New York: Little Room Press. (Scholar)
• Yovel, Yirmiyahu and Gideon Segal (eds.), 2004. Spinoza on Reason and the “Free Man”, New York: Little Room Press. (Scholar)