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Spinoza's Metaphysics
Yitzhak Y. Melamed
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Description for Spinoza's Metaphysics
Paperback. This book offers a new and radical interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics. Num Pages: 256 pages, contains 2 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Yitzhak Melamed here offers a new and systematic interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics. In the first part of the book, he proposes a new reading of the metaphysics of substance in Spinoza: he argues that for Spinoza modes both inhere in and are predicated of God. Using extensive textual evidence, he shows that Spinoza considered modes to be God's propria. He goes on to clarify Spinoza's understanding of infinity, mereological relations, infinite modes, and the flow of finite things from God's essence. In the second part of the book, Melamed relies on this interpretation of the substance-mode relation ... Read more
Yitzhak Melamed here offers a new and systematic interpretation of the core of Spinoza's metaphysics. In the first part of the book, he proposes a new reading of the metaphysics of substance in Spinoza: he argues that for Spinoza modes both inhere in and are predicated of God. Using extensive textual evidence, he shows that Spinoza considered modes to be God's propria. He goes on to clarify Spinoza's understanding of infinity, mereological relations, infinite modes, and the flow of finite things from God's essence. In the second part of the book, Melamed relies on this interpretation of the substance-mode relation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190237349
SKU
V9780190237349
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About Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Johns Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics (time, mereology, and trope theory).
Reviews for Spinoza's Metaphysics
Melamed remarks that 'it is better to observe the beast' of Spinoza's bold metaphysics 'than to tame it'. Anyone seeking to understand the magnificent beast will benefit enormously from his skilled observations of it.
Don Garret, Journal of Philosophy
Spinoza's Metaphysics will stimulate and inform discussion of Spinoza for years to come.
Journal of the History of ... Read more
Don Garret, Journal of Philosophy
Spinoza's Metaphysics will stimulate and inform discussion of Spinoza for years to come.
Journal of the History of ... Read more