I've now plowed through a substantial portion of Willi Goetschel's Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine. It's tough to read and absorb--there...
hi Ralph, Thank you for this very interesting recommendation. I'm trying to get a copy. Perhaps, we can discuss some ideas. I'm looking forward to your...
hi Ralph, Thank you for this very interesting recommendation. I'm going to get a copy. Perhaps, we can discuss some ideas. I'm looking forward to your reports....
I intend to report more fully when I can. I've also recently read a number of journal articles which I wish to write up. Two are on Spinoza's Jewishness, one...
Reviews of books on Spinoza in THE JEWISH DAILY FORWARD: Spinoza: Hero, Infidel, Celebrity BIOGRAPHY By Daniel B. Schwartz June 30, 2006 review of: Betraying...
Dear Sarah, A wise person once indicated to me that it was a wonderful thing that I had anyone in my sphere who had even a limited interest in working with the...
I love this poem. I wish I could write like this. Maybe I'll make another attempt to finish my poem on Spinoza and John Lee Hooker. Spinoza by Jorge Luis...
This poem is lovely, and true, but what couldn't be improved with a backbeat? And whiskey and women? Boogie on, Big D. Constantine ... [Non-text portions of...
Oops, forgot for a second the Affects. Whiskey/Women = Drunkeness/Lust. Human bondage. How does Spinoza and Hooker go together? Got it. Maybe Benedict's...
Spinoza Award The International Spinoza Lens Award has been given to a female academic for the first time since its inception. Named after the Dutch...
I would like to hear about Spinoza as a lens-grinder and his achievements in this field. Also, I have read somewhere that Spinoza has produced a manual on...
Hi Ralph, ... I appreciate your references to politics, literature and music because at a certain point the question emerges what Spinozism means as a way of...
This is the very first thing I read upon waking up a few minutes ago. Fascinating! Thanks for that and for the link to Daniel Barenboim, whom I'd never heard...
Estimado Oduvaldo, very little is really known about the life of Spinoza; a few facts, a lot of fiction! The only statement we have about his lens-grinding,...
Miriam van Reijen
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Jul 26, 2006 8:51 am
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Hi Ralph, Gotschel's book gives in his first five chapters a dense and comprehensive introduction into Spinoza's philosophy. Since Goetschel has a special...
I'm going to have to review my notes. I found this a difficult read, partly because of the background required, partly because of the style. There are a...
July 29, 2006 Op-Ed Contributor Reasonable Doubt By REBECCA NEWBERGER GOLDSTEIN Boston THURSDAY marked the 350th anniversary of the excommunication of the ...
The spirit of Spinoza By Cornel West | July 28, 2006 THREE HUNDRED and fifty years ago this week, Baruch Spinoza, the greatest philosopher ever produced by...
Thinking through Affect A two-day symposium on body, affect, emotion and moving images Friday 8 Saturday 9 September Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht ...
Ralph & Others, Just reading the intro below with Deleuze & Spinozas view of the body brings to mind Anton Damasio's "Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the...
What a waste of paper. Marvin Farber was interested in naturalizing phenomenology without all this pretentious distraction. BTW, is Alphonso Lingus related...
... I reckon this is the same thing meant by Plato's idea of the forms as ideal homeostatic ways of being for real things like plants, animals and humans. ...
Donnelly, Hugo. "Awakening from the Nightmare of History: Spinoza's Intellectual System and the Two Orders of Religion in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound,"...
I cannot agree with the good Catholic father. Without a Historical Critical method applied to in terpreting Scriptures Fundamentalism triumph that will turn...
philip koh
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Aug 23, 2006 12:14 pm
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I have the book it is a good intro from the oen of a literary critc professor who is also specialist in Deconstructionist I alo recommend Jonathan Israel...
