Spinoza's Book of Life: Freedom and Redemption in the Ethics

by Steven B. Smith

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300100191
• ISBN13: 9780300100198
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"