Series: Spinoza Studies

Jaquet offers a detailed analysis of time, duration, and eternity in Spinoza's works, as well as how these themes relate to each other through the entirety of his corpus. With Spinoza, she asks how it is possible for human beings, as finite modes of existence, to share in God's eternity, as well as how human existence relates to the eternity...

Published in France in 2018, Henri Atlan's book Cours de philosophie biologique et cognitiviste: Spinoza et la biologie actuelle (Odile Jacob, 2018) represents a turning point in Spinoza's interpretations of contemporary life sciences. Henri Atlan is the first in this field of research, of applied epistemology and ontology, to effectively address contemporary questions in biology and cognitive sciences. Atlan presents...

This book contributes to the ongoing debate on the contemporary relevance of Enlightenment philosophy by examining, through the lens of the French reception of Spinoza in the Eighteenth century, crucial themes such as virtuous atheism, freedom of conscience, and the tension between the 'spirit of system' and the 'systematic spirit'. Diego Donna retraces the resistances, conflicts, and interpretive ambiguities that...

François Zourabichvili (1965-2006) wrote two of the most important books on Spinoza in the past 20 years. The first book, Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism (EUP, 2023), focuses on Spinoza's political philosophy. This second book studies Spinoza's metaphysics and the way he uses it to produce a 'physics of thought'. Zourabichvili suggests that Spinoza completely revises the concept of form and develops...