A Companion to Spinoza

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, USA. He works at the intersection of philosophy, Jewish and religious studies, the history of science, and issues in 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, and a large number of studies on early modern philosophy, medieval philosophy, and German idealism.

Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Yitzhak Y. Melamed

Part I Life and Background

1 Spinoza's Life
Piet Steenbakkers

2 Spinoza's Philology
Piet Steenbakkers

3 Avicenna and Spinoza on the Essence and Existence
Stephen R. Ogden

4 Spinoza and Maimonides On True Religion
Warren Zev Harvey

5 Spinoza and Scholastic Philosophy
Emanuele Costa

6 Spinoza and Descartes
Denis Kambouchner

7 Spinoza's Dutch Philosophical Background
Henry Krop

8 Spinoza and Hobbes
Michael LeBuffe

Part II Metaphysics and Natural Philosophy

9 Spinoza's Monistic Metaphysics of Substance and Mode
Don Garrett

10 Spinoza on Eternity
Pierre-Francois Moreau

11 Spinoza on Causa Sui
Yitzhak Y. Melamed

12 Spinoza's Physical Picture
John Carriero

13 Spinoza's Mereology
Tad Schmaltz

14 Spinoza's Metaphysics of Time
Raphael Krut-Landau

15 Spinoza's Infinities
Luce DeLire

16 Spinoza on Diachronic Identity
Dominik Perler

17 Spinoza on Relations
Zachary Gartenberg

18 Spinoza on Numerical Identity and Time
John Morrison

19 Spinoza on Universals
Karolina Hubner

20 Spinoza Ontology of Power
Juan Manuel Ledesma Viteri

21 Spinoza's Modal Theory
Olli Koistinen

22 Spinoza on Determination
Noa Shein

23 Spinoza's Physics
Alison Peterman

Part III Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind and Psychology

25 Spinoza on Human and Divine Knowledge
Barnaby R. Hutchins and Ursula Renz

26 Reflexive Knowledge
Kristin Primus

27 Spinoza Against the Skeptics
Stephan Schmid

28 Spinoza on Ideas of Affections.
Lia Levy

29 The Mind-Body Union
Chantal Jacquet

30 Spinoza's Non-Theory of Non-Consciousness
Daniel Garber

31 Spinoza on the Passions and the Self
Andrea Sangiacomo

32 Spinoza's Two Paths to Enlightenment: The Serpent and the Dove
Michah Gottlieb

Part IV Ethics, Politics, and Religion

33 Spinoza's Moral Philosophy
Steven Nadler

34 Spinoza on the Constitution of Animal Species
Susan James

35 Essence, Virtue and the State
Erin Islo

36 Spinoza's Concept of Law
Pina Totaro

37 Spinoza's Notion of Freedom
Moira Gatens

38 Spinoza's Republican Ideas of Freedom
Michael A. Rosenthal

39 Spinoza and Economics
Eric Schlisser

40 Spinoza and Feminism
Hasana Sharp

41 Spinoza and International Law
Moa De Lucia Dahlbeck

42 The Intellectual Love of God
Clare Carlisle

43 Spinoza and the Scripture
Dan Arbib

Part V Aesthetics and Language

44 Spinoza' Aesthetics
Domenica G. Romagni

45 Spinoza on Semiotics
Lornzo Vinciguerra

46 Spinoza and the Grammar of the Hebrew Language
Guadalupe Gonzalez Dieguez

Part VI Spinoza's Reception

47 Leibniz and Spinoza on Plentitude and Necessity
Jean-Pascal Anfray

48 Spinoza in France, 1670-1970
Mogens Laerke

49 Kant and Spinoza
Colin Marshall

50 Nietzsche and Spinoza
Jason Maurice Yonover

51 Schelling with Spinoza on Freedom
Daniel Dragicevic

52 Hegel on Spinozism and the Beginning of Philosophy
Jose Maria Sanchez de Leon

53 Schopenhauer's Critique of Spinoza's Pantheism, Optimism, and Egoism
Mor Segev

54 Spinoza and Popular Philosophy
Jack Stetter

Index