Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Spinoza and the Ethics - Paperback

by Genevieve Lloyd (Author)

Spinoza is a key figure in modern philosophy. Ethics is his most studied and well known work. Being both up-to-date and clear, this Guidebook is designed to lead the reader through this complex seminal text.
Spinoza's Ethics introduces and assess:
* Spinoza'a life, and its connection with his thought
* The text of the Ethics
* Spinoza's continuing relevence to contemporary philosophy

Author Biography

Genevieve Lloyd is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of The Man of Reason: 'Male' and 'Female' in Western Philosophy and Being and Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature (both published by Routledge), and Part of Nature: Self-knowledge in Spinoza's Ethics (1994).