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.

• Notes on Contributors xiList of Abbreviations xviiIntroduction xixYitzhak Y. MelamedPart I Life and Background 11 Spinoza’s Life 3Piet Steenbakkers2 Spinoza Philology 15Piet Steenbakkers3 Avicenna and Spinoza on Essence and Existence 30Stephen R. Ogden4 Spinoza and Maimonides on True Religion 41Warren Zev Harvey5 Spinoza and Scholastic Philosophy 47Emanuele Costa6 Spinoza and Descartes 56Denis Kambouchner7 Spinoza’s Dutch Philosophical Background 68Henri Krop Copyrighted Material8 Spinoza and Hobbes 81Michael LeBuffePart II Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy 939 Spinoza’s Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and Mode 95Don Garrett10 Spinoza and Eternity 108Pierre‐François Moreau11 Spinoza on Causa Sui 116Yitzhak Y. Melamed12 Spinoza’s Physical Picture 126John Carriero13 Spinoza’s Mereology 135Tad M. Schmaltz14 Spinoza’s Metaphysics of Time 144Raphael Krut‐Landau15 Spinoza’s Infinities 158Luce deLire16 Spinoza on Diachronic Identity 170Dominik Perler17 Spinoza on Relations 179Zachary Gartenberg18 Spinoza on Numerical Identity and Time 189John Morrison19 Spinoza on Universals 204Karolina Hübner20 Spinoza’s Ontology of Power 214Juan Manuel Ledesma Viteri21 Spinoza’s Modal Theory 222Olli Koistinen22 Spinoza on Determination 231Noa Shein23 Spinoza’s Physics 240Alison PetermanPart III Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, and Psychology 25124 Spinoza on Human and Divine Knowledge 253Ursula Renz and Barnaby R. Hutchins25 Reflective Knowledge 265Kristin Primus26 Spinoza Against the Skeptics 276Stephan Schmid27 Spinoza on Ideas of Affections 286Lia Levy28 The Mind‐Body Union 296Chantal Jaquet29 Spinoza’s Non‐Theory of Non‐Consciousness 304Daniel Garber30 Spinoza on the Passions and the Self 328Andrea Sangiacomo31 The Serpent and the Dove: Spinoza’s Two Paths to Enlightenment 338Michah GottliebPart IV Ethics, Politics, and Religion 34932 Spinoza’s Moral Philosophy 351Steven Nadler33 Spinoza on the Constitution of Animal Species 365Susan James34 Essence, Virtue and the State 375Erin Islo35 Law and Dissolution of Law in Spinoza 384Pina Totaro36 Spinoza’s Notion of Freedom 394Moira Gatens37 Spinoza’s “Republican Idea of Freedom” 402Michael A. Rosenthal38 Spinoza and Economics 410Eric Schliesser39 Spinoza and Feminism 422Hasana Sharp40 Spinoza and International Law 431Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck41 The Intellectual Love of God 440Clare Carlisle42 Spinoza and Scripture 449Dan ArbibPart V Aesthetics and Language 46343 Spinoza’s Aesthetics 465Domenica G. Romagni44 Following Traces in the Sand: Spinoza on Semiotics 474Lorenzo Vinciguerra45 Spinoza and the Grammar of the Hebrew Language 483Guadalupe González DiéguezPart VI Spinoza’s Reception 49346 Leibniz and Spinoza on Plenitude and Necessity 495Jean‐Pascal Anfray47 Spinoza in France, ca. 1670–1970 506Mogens Lærke48 Kant and Spinoza 517Colin Marshall49 Nietzsche and Spinoza 527Jason M. Yonoveŕ50 Schelling with Spinoza on Freedom 538Daniel Dragicévic51 Hegel on Spinozism and the Beginning of Philosophy 548José María Sánchez de León Serrano52 Schopenhauer’s Critique of Spinoza’s Pantheism, Optimism, and Egoism 557Mor Segev53 Spinoza and Popular Philosophy 568Jack Stetter Index 579