
Written literally untimely, the Ethics of Baruj Spinoza (1632-1677) has always exercised, even before it was delivered to the presses, a truly obsessive fascination. For bad as well as for good. The positions that are defended in it, strange to the common philosophical sense of its time - and still of ours - have elicited both the most violent rejection and the most surrendered admiration. But perhaps not so much a full understanding of his stakes. Every reader of the Ethics has been, continues to be, the reader of a philosophy to come.
Reviews and criticisms:
- «The fundamental work of a giant thinker». (Babelia, July 4, 2020)
- «This new edition gives us the opportunity to reread the Ethics and discover that there was someone behind it, someone who is shown in the Appendices and in the Scholia, full of sharp empirical observations, of angry indignation against s...read more