The Collected Works of Spinoza, Volume I (ebook)

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"Curley's edition has been compiled with great care, thoroughness, and skill. We now have, at long last, the first part of a superb English edition of Spinoza's writings, with reliable, uniform translations and an extremely useful scholarly apparatus. All of this makes Curley's edition indispensable to students of Spinoza and modern philosophy."--James C. Morrison, Canadian Philosophical Reviews

"A standard and trusted tool of Spinoza scholarship in the English-speaking world."--John Cottingham, Times Higher Education Supplement

Edwin Curley is professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Michigan. His books include A Spinoza Reader, Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza's "Ethics," and Spinoza's Metaphysics. He is also the author of Descartes Against the Skeptics and the editor of an edition of Hobbes's Leviathan. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

"Curley's annotated translation of Spinoza is a great scholarly achievement that will set a standard for the field."--Margaret D. Wilson, Princeton University

"Curley has put all historians of modern philosophy deeply in his debt with the first volume of The Collected Works of Spinoza."--Maurice Mandelbaum, Johns Hopkins University

"This work is a superb scholarly translation of Spinoza, which also puts at our disposal the necessary aids for introducing his writings and treating problems concerning text and doctrine. The work gives us the long-awaited instrument for studying Spinoza in the English language and with the assistance of recent Spinoza scholarship."--James Collins, St. Louis University

"Our grip on Spinoza's texts can now be firmer than it ever could before, thanks to Curley's translation and to his editorial apparatus. Both are indispensable for serious scholarly work on Spinoza, even by those who know Latin and more especially by those who don't."--Jonathan Bennett, Syracuse University

"Far more than a fresh translation. . . . [A] model of the translator-editor's art."--B. A. Gerrish, Journal of Religion

"This wonderful volume is as much an edition as it is a translation. . . . [Curley's] renderings bring one much closer to what Spinoza actually wrote than do those of any previous translator of Spinoza into English. . . . Curley's volume will stand alone for the foreseeable future; indeed, it is hard to imagine anything ever supplanting it as the chief Spinoza research tool for Anglophones."--Jonathan Bennett, Philosophical Review

"Curley's translation surpasses all of the others in accuracy and reliability."--H. G. Hubbeling, Journal of the History of Philosophy

"Curley succeeds on all counts in this invaluable aid to an understanding of an important, but difficult, rationalist philosopher."--Leon H. Brody, Library Journal (starred review)

"A major contribution to Spinoza scholarship . . . sets a new standard."--Daniel E. Garber, Ethics0