Wayne I. Boucher verzorgde een bibliografie en een monumentale anthologie over Spinoza in ’t Engels
Wayne I. Boucher over wie het me niet lukt verder ook maar iets te vinden op internet*, verzorgde eerst
Spinoza in English. A Bibliography from the Seventeenth Century to the Present [Leiden [e.a.]: Brill, 1991. - 226 pp. - (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History; 28), daarna heruitgegeven met een voorwoord van Manfred Walther onder de verkorte titel Spinoza In English. A Bibliography, door Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1999. - XVIII, 340 pp. – books.google – het geeft 300 titels.
In dat jaar van heruitgave verscheen van hem tevens in zes delen een anthologie – een ruime keuze van 150 historisch en filosofisch belangrijke bijdragen uit de 18e en 19e eeuw, de helft dus van de in de bibliografie vermelde titels:
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Wayne Boucher (Ed.), Spinoza:
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Discussions, 6 vols. Bristol, Thoemmes
Press, 1999
v. 1. 1700-1800, v. 2. 1800-1855, v. 3. 1855-1870, v. 4. 1870-1880, v. 5. 1880-1888, v. 6. 1888-1900.
The volumes include works by: biographers - from Colerus, Lucas, and Kortholt to Ramseur, Kroeger and Strauss; encyclopedists - from Bayle, Chambers, and Blunt through all contributors to the "Encyclopedia Britannica" from 1771 to 1900; historians of philosophy - from Tennemann, Enfield, and Henry to Morell, Schwegler, Erdmann, Ueberweg, Paulsen, and Freudenthal; literary and social critics - from Voltaire, Goethe, Hallam, Heine, and Froude to Arnold, Bradlaugh, Renan, and Leslie Stephen; theologians and religious commentators - from Clarke, Colliber, Tournemaine, and Trench, Farrar, Jowett, and Boedder; philosophers - from Leibniz, Malebranche, and Stewart to Schelling, Caird, Boole, Hegel, Dewey, Santayana, Royce, Schopenhauer, and A.E. Taylor; Spinoza's early translators into English - from Maccall and Willis to Smith and White; additionally, many other authors, such as Berkeley, Paine, Coleridge, Huxley, Ingersoll, and Nietzsche, represented in briefer selections. [Uit stanford.edu]
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Hier een alinea uit de recensie van Wiep van Bunge in Studia Spinozana 14 (1998) “Spinoza on
Mind and Body”
[..] Wayne I. Boucher, who first published an important bibliography, entitled Spinoza in English (1991, 2nd ed. 1999), and who has now issued a six-part collection of texts on Spinoza in English, dating from 1700 to 1900. The sheer volume of this anthology makes it an indispensable asset to any serious scholar of Spinozism. Certainly no academic library can do without it. The quality of the material gathered here is extremely impressive. To the professional scholar of early modern philosophy many of the criticisms it contains may well look superficial and outworn, but even the best-informed experts will find much in it that will surprise and delight. Before attempting to highlight some of the more remarkable texts from this collection, a caveat seems in place. Although all the fragments do indeed date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, many of them are translations of texts originally written in French, German or Dutch, and some of these translations only date from this century. The first volume, for example, contains the 1735 English translation of the scathing article on Spinoza in Pierre Bayle's Dictionaire (1697), and texts by Leibniz, Malebranche and Nieuwentijt. Some of the material gathered here will be only too familiar, - Colerus' and Lucas' early biographies of the philosopher and Goethe's and Hegel's verdict on his thought. Most of the anthology, however, consists of largely forgotten pieces. Since it is impossible to do justice to all the material selected by Boucher, I shall concentrate on the British and American texts.
Tot slot uit Philpapers:
"monumental work" - The North American Spinoza Society Newsletter , February 1999 "The sheer volume of this anthology makes it an indispensable asset to any serious scholar of Spinozism. Certainly no academic library can do without it. The quality of the material gathered here is extremely impressive. To the professional scholar of early modern philosophy many of the criticisms it contains may well look superficial and outworn, but even the best-informed experts will find much in it that will surprise and delight." - Wipe van Bunge Benedict Spinoza (1632-77), Dutch metaphysician, psychologist, moral philosopher and philosopher of religion, is one of the most important figures of seventeenth-century rationalism. He is among the illustrious group of hugely influential thinkers of that time who were mathematicians and scientists as well as philosophers, a group that included Descartes, Leibniz and Hobbes. His thought has been continually reinterpreted and he influenced such people as Goethe, Lessing, Nietzsche, Shelley, George Eliot, Wordsworth, Bertrand Russell, Freud and Einstein. This unprecedented collection brings together some 150 historically and philosophically important discussions of Spinoza published in English in the two centuries following his death. The authoritative bibliography - Boucher's Spinoza in English: A Bibliography from the Seventeenth Century to the Present - cites a total of only about 300 publications from this period. Thus this collection gathers half of all materials so far identified and represents by far the most significant and interesting contributions. Internally cross-referenced, with an introduction, notes and full subject and name index, this essential collection also features an index of citations to the Ethics, by the editor. This will be an extremely useful resource for Spinoza specialists, research libraries, intellectual historians, and graduate students in philosophy. --a compilation of c.150 important pamphlets, papers and book chapters discussing Spinoza --the first collection of its kind - none of this material has previously been collected --6 reset volumes in royal size --extremely comprehensive, including many rare items --internally cross-referenced and fully indexed for easy use."
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Uit de Duitse Spinozabibliografie bijkt dat Boucher op 30 november 1991 een lezing hield, "Spinoza's influence in British colonial America." Daarover schrijft de bibliothecaris: "Unveröffentlichtes Vortragsmanuskript zur Tagung 'Spinoza's philosophy and its reception in the English-speaking world', London, 30. November 1991. Behandelte Personen: Jefferson, Thomas; Stewart, Dugald; Johnson, Samuel; Colden, Cadwallader." [Cf.]
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Hierop kon Genevieve Lloyd voortbouwen met haar vierdelige Spinoza. Critical assessments [Routledge, London/New York, 2001, (1,604 pages)]. These volumes provide a comprehensive selection of high quality critical discussions of his philosophy published in, or translated into English since 1970. [Cf. blog]
Zo gaapt er wel een 'anthologische kloof' tussen Boucher die ging tot 1900 en Lloyd die startte bij 1970.
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*) Uit zijn pagina op academia.edu (als het echt de zijne is) blijkt dat Wayne Boucher zich na de hier vermelde publicaties niet meer met Spinoza heeft bezig gehouden en dat zijn onderzoek en interesses zijn: "Qualitative methodology, Focus Groups, In-depth Interviews, Futures Research, and Baruch Spinoza." Hij houdt zich erg verborgen en biedt ook niets te downloaden aan.
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Daar er nergens een afbeelding te vinden is van Boucher's zesdelige anthologie, heb ik uit de afbeelding die Stanford gaf, zelf de afbeelding van zes samengesteld.
