Table of Contents

Contributors
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Spinoza's Lost Defense
Edwin Curley
2 Fictio / Verziering (e) in Spinoza's Early Writings
Filippo Mignini
3 The Problem of True Ideas in Spinoza's Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
Alan Nelson
4 Truth in Spinoza's Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
John Morrison
5 Spinoza's Rules of Living
Michael LeBuffe
6 Leibniz on Spinoza's Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione
Mogens Laerke
7 Spinoza's Cartesian Dualism in the Korte Verhandeling
Daniel Garber
8 Reason in the Short Treatise
Colin Marshall
9 Spinoza's Calvin: Reformed Theology in the Korte Verhandeling
Russ Leo
10 Spinoza, the Will, and the Ontology of Power
John Carriero
11 Spinoza's Essentialism in the Short Treatise
Valtteri Viljanen
12 When was Spinoza not Young any More?
Frédéric Manzini
13 Spinoza on Eternity and Duration: the 1663 Connection
Tad M. Schmaltz
14 Spinoza on Negation, Mind-Dependence and the Reality of the Finite
Karlolina Hübner
15 Temporalities and Kinds of Cognition in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, the Short Treatise, and the Ethics
Oded Schechter
16 Spinoza's Early Anti-Abstractionism
Samuel Newlands
17 A Glimpse into Spinoza's Metaphysical Laboratory: The Development of the Concepts of Substance and Attribute
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
18 From the Passive to the Active Intellect
Ursula Renz
19 Degrees of Essence and Perfection in Spinoza
John Brandau
20 The Young Spinoza and the Vatican Manuscript of Spinoza's Ethics
Pina Totaro
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (2011), and of Spinoza and German Idealism ( 2012).

Reviews

"There is a lot of valuable material in this volume. Spinoza scholars will absolutely want to own a copy. And, given the reasonable price of the paperback edition, others with an interest in early modern philosophy might consider buying it."
-- Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Online
"...a collection of groundbreaking essays by some of the leading lights of Spinoza scholarship on a variety of issues in Spinoza's metaphysics, emphasizing their treatment in the early works-and a very valuable one." -- Journal of the History of Philosophy