Companion to Spinoza

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works at the intersection of philosophy, Jewish and religious studies, the history of science, and contemporary metaphysics. He has been awarded the ACLS-Burkhardt, NEH, Fulbright, and Mellon Fellowships. He is the author of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (2015), and a large number of studies on early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and German idealism.

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• Notes on ContributorsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionYitzhak Y. MelamedPart I Life and Background1 Spinoza’s LifePiet Steenbakkers2 Spinoza’s PhilologyPiet Steenbakkers3 Avicenna and Spinoza on the Essence and ExistenceStephen R. Ogden4 Spinoza and Maimonides On True ReligionWarren Zev Harvey5 Spinoza and Scholastic PhilosophyEmanuele Costa6 Spinoza and DescartesDenis Kambouchner7 Spinoza’s Dutch Philosophical BackgroundHenry Krop8 Spinoza and HobbesMichael LeBuffePart II Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy9 Spinoza’s Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and ModeDon Garrett10 Spinoza on EternityPierre-François Moreau11 Spinoza on Causa SuiYitzhak Y. Melamed12 Spinoza’s Physical PictureJohn Carriero13 Spinoza’s MereologyTad Schmaltz14 Spinoza’s Metaphysics of TimeRaphael Krut-Landau15 Spinoza’s InfinitiesLuce DeLire16 Spinoza on Diachronic IdentityDominik Perler17 Spinoza on RelationsZachary Gartenberg18 Spinoza on Numerical Identity and TimeJohn Morrison19 Spinoza on UniversalsKarolina Hübner20 Spinoza Ontology of PowerJuan Manuel Ledesma Viteri21 Spinoza’s Modal TheoryOlli Koistinen22 Spinoza on DeterminationNoa Shein23 Spinoza’s PhysicsAlison PetermanPart III Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Psychology25 Spinoza on Human and Divine KnowledgeBarnaby R. Hutchins and Ursula Renz26 Reflexive KnowledgeKristin Primus27 Spinoza Against the SkepticsStephan Schmid28 Spinoza on Ideas of Affections.Lia Levy29 The Mind-Body UnionChantal Jacquet30 Spinoza’s Non-Theory of Non-ConsciousnessDaniel Garber31 Spinoza on the Passions and the SelfAndrea Sangiacomo32 Spinoza’s Two Paths to Enlightenment: The Serpent and the DoveMichah GottliebPart IV Ethics, Politics, and Religion33 Spinoza’s Moral PhilosophySteven Nadler34 Spinoza on the Constitution of Animal SpeciesSusan James35 Essence, Virtue and the StateErin Islo36 Spinoza’s Concept of LawPina Totaro37 Spinoza’s Notion of FreedomMoira Gatens38 Spinoza’s Republican Ideas of FreedomMichael A. Rosenthal39 Spinoza and EconomicsEric Schlisser40 Spinoza and FeminismHasana Sharp41 Spinoza and International LawMoa De Lucia Dahlbeck42 The Intellectual Love of GodClare Carlisle43 Spinoza and the ScriptureDan ArbibPart V Aesthetics and Language44 Spinoza’ AestheticsDomenica G. Romagni45 Spinoza on SemioticsLornzo Vinciguerra46 Spinoza and the Grammar of the Hebrew LanguageGuadalupe González DiéguezPart VI Spinoza’s Reception47 Leibniz and Spinoza on Plentitude and NecessityJean-Pascal Anfray48 Spinoza in France, 1670-1970Mogens Laerke49 Kant and SpinozaColin Marshall50 Nietzsche and SpinozaJason Maurice Yonover51 Schelling with Spinoza on FreedomDaniel Dragicevic52 Hegel on Spinozism and the Beginning of PhilosophyJosé María Sánchez de León53 Schopenhauer’s Critique of Spinoza’s Pantheism, Optimism, and EgoismMor Segev54 Spinoza and Popular PhilosophyJack StetterIndex