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Spinoza scholarship today resembles a proliferating forest, diversifying and developing every day. Spinoza's Labyrinths invites the reader to explore some recently charted paths in these woods, whilst also forging some new trails.
This volume collects essays by Yitzhak Melamed on Spinoza's metaphysics, some of which are new but most of which were published over the last decade and a half. The common methodological attitude that most, if not all, of these studies reflect is the commitment to a bottom-up reconstruction of Spinoza's philosophy, where Spinoza's text is both the point of departure and the constant touchstone against which any interpretation must be evaluated. Across four key parts, Melamed traces diachronically the development of key concepts of Spinoza's metaphysics, discusses key problems at the core of his metaphysics, examines the connection between Spinoza's substance monism and the philosophy of the ancient Eleatics, and conducts a historical study of Spinoza's debt to the Kabbalah.
Contents
Part I. Entry Point1:
Part II. Tracing the Paths2:
3: The Earliest Draft of Spinoza's Ethics
5: The Banishment of Accidents from Spinoza's Paradise
Part III. Problemata
6: Spinoza on Causa Sui
7: "A Substance Consisting of an Infinity of Attributes": Spinoza on the Infinity of Attributes
8: On the Fish's Knowledge of God's Essence, or Why Spinoza Was Not a Skeptic
9: The Enigma of Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis
Part IV. Benedict and the Eleatics
10: Why Is Spinoza NOT an Eleatic Monist? (Or Why Does Diversity Exist?
11: The Sirens of Elea: Rationalism, Monism, and Idealism in Spinoza
Part V. Another Path
12: From the Gate of Heaven to the 'Field of Holy Apples': Spinoza and the Kabbalah
