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The Oxford Handbook of S P I N O Z A The Oxford Handbook of SPINOZA Edited by MICHAEL DELLA ROCCA 1 3 Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and certain other countries. Published in the United States of America by Oxford University Press 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, United States of America. © Oxford University Press 2018 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law, by license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. You must not circulate this work in any other form and you must impose this same condition on any acquirer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Della Rocca, Michael, editor. Title: The Oxford handbook of Spinoza / edited by Michael Della Rocca. Description: New York : Oxford University Press, 2018. | Series: Oxford handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017014744 (print) | LCCN 2017025941 (ebook) | ISBN 9780199714698 (updf) | ISBN 9780199984732 (online course) | ISBN 9780190850173 (epub) | ISBN 9780195335828 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632–1677. Classification: LCC B3998 (ebook) | LCC B3998 .O94 2017 (print) | DDC 199/.492—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017014744 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed by Sheridan Books, Inc., United States of America Acknowledgments Many thanks to Peter Ohlin and his excellent editorial staff for much insight, guidance, and patience through the many stages of the production of this volume. I am especially grateful to Alex Silverman whose expertise on Spinoza and whose acuity as a reader of texts immeasurably improved this work. Contents Contributors xi Abbreviations xv Commonly Cited English Translations xvii 1. Introduction 1 Michael Della Rocca 2. The Virtues of Geometry 18 Aaron Garrett 3. From Maimonides to Spinoza: Three Versions of an Intellectual Transition 45 Kenneth Seeskin 4. Spinoza and Descartes 63 Tad M. Schmaltz 5. The Building Blocks of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance, Attributes, and Modes 84 Yitzhak Y. Melamed 6. But Why Was Spinoza a Necessitarian? 114 Charlie Huenemann 7. The Principle of Sufficient Reason in Spinoza 133 Martin Lin 8. Spinoza and the Philosophy of Science: Mathematics, Motion, and Being 155 Eric Schliesser 9. Representation, Misrepresentation, and Error in Spinoza’s Philosophy of Mind 190 Don Garrett viii Contents 10. Finite Subjects in the Ethics: Spinoza on Indexical Knowledge, the First Person, and the Individuality of Human Minds 204 Ursula Renz 11. Spinoza on Skepticism 220 Dominik Perler 12. The Highest Good and Perfection in Spinoza 240 John Carriero 13. Spinoza on Mind 273 Olli Koistinen 14. The Intellectual Love of God 295 Steven Nadler 15. The Metaphysics of Affects or the Unbearable Reality of Confusion 314 Lilli Alanen 16. Spinoza’s Unorthodox Metaphysics of the Will 343 Karolina Hübner 17. Eternity 370 Chantal Jaquet 18. Spinoza’s Philosophy of Religion 377 Carlos Fraenkel 19. Spinoza’s Political Philosophy 408 Michael A. Rosenthal 20. Leibniz’s Encounter with Spinoza’s Monism, October 1675 to February 1678 434 Mogens Lærke 21. Playing with Fire: Hume, Rationalism, and a Little Bit of Spinoza 464 Michael Della Rocca 22. Kant and Spinoza Debating the Third Antinomy 482 Omri Boehm 23. “Nothing Comes from Nothing”: Judaism, the Orient, and Kabbalah in Hegel’s Reception of Spinoza 512 Paul Franks Contents ix 24. Nietzsche and Spinoza: Enemy- Brothers 540 Yirmiyahu Yovel 25. Spinoza’s Afterlife in Judaism and the Task of Modern Jewish Philosophy 571 Michael L. Morgan 26. Spinoza’s Relevance to Contemporary Metaphysics 601 Samuel Newlands 27. Literary Spinoza 627 Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Index 667