De Spinoza-reader van Freeman & Mandelbaum
In de 70-iger jaren verschenen er meerdere Engelstalige bundels met Spinoza- essay’s:
Paul Kashap (Ed.), Studies in Spinoza: Critical and Interpretive Essays (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972); [cf. blog]
Marjorie Grene (Ed.), Spinoza: A Collection of Critical Essays (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor, 1973); [cf. blog]
Eugene Freeman & Maurice Mandelbaum (Eds.), Spinoza: Essays in Interpretation (La Salle, IU.: Open Court, 1973);
J. G. van der Bend (Ed.), Spinoza on Knowing, Being, and Freedom (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1974). [cf. volgend blog]
James B. Wilbur (Ed.), Spinoza's Metaphysics: Essays in Critical Appreciation. Philosophia Spinozae Perennis, vol. 1. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1976. Pp. viii + 163. Paper, Dfl. 37.50. [cf. volgend blog]
Richard Kennington (Ed.), The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza [Washington, DC : The Catholic University of America Press, 1980 [cf. blog]
Aan de eerste reader ooit, die van Paul Kashap, en ook aan de daarop volgende, van Marjorie Grene, heb ik eerder in blogs aandacht besteed. Deze keer doe ik dat met de derde, waarvan ik de inhoud zo goed mogelijk (maar wellicht nog niet volledig) heb gereconstrueerd uit het review van Margaret D. Wilson in Philosophia [March 1977, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp 205-208 Cf.], de Duitse Spinozabibliografie en Wayne I. Boucher's Spinoza in English: A Bibliography from the Seventeenth Century to the Present [BRILL, 1991 – books.google]
Het gaat hier dus om
Eugene Freeman & Maurice Mandelbaum (Eds.), Spinoza: Essays in Interpretation. LaSalle/Ill. Open Court, 1975. - VI, 323 pp. Cover van de revised edition April 1977.
Het bevat artikelen die oorspronkelijk in The Monist van 1971 hadden gestaan, aangevuld met drie essay’s en een door Edwin Curley samengestelde bibliografie van de Spinoza-literatuur van 1960 - 1972
• G.H.R. Parkinson, "Spinoza on the power and freedom of man," pp. 7-34 [oorspr. in The Monist, 1971, pp. 527-553]
• Stuart Hampshire, "Spinoza's Theory of Human Freedom," pp. 35-48 [oorspr. in The monist, 1971, pp. 554-566]
• W. I. Matson, "Spinoza's Theory of Mind.” [Oorspr. In: The Monist 55 (1971/4), pp. 567-578], pp. 49-60.
• William K. Frankena, "Spinoza's 'New Morality': notes on book IV," pp. 85-100
• Robert McShea, "Spinoza: Human nature and history,” pp. 101-116 [oorspr. . In: The Monist 55 (1971), pp. 602-616]
• William Sacksteder, "Spinoza on Democracy," pp. 117-138
• Willis Doney, "Spinoza on Philosophical Skepticism," pp. 139-58 [oorspr. In: The Monist 55 (4), (1971) pp. 617-635]
• Edwin Curley, "Descartes, Spinoza and the Ethics of Belief." pp. 159-89.
• Lee C. Rice, "Spinoza on Individuation," pp. 195-214.
• Ruth Lydia Saw, "The Task of Metaphysics for Spinoza,"
• Erroll Harris, "Spinoza's Theory of Human Immortality" [oorspr. in: The Monist 55 (1971), pp. 668-685]
• Edwin Curley, "Bibliography." pp. 263-316.
* * *
Margaret D. Wilson in haar review: "The collection includes one superb essay — Willis Doney's "Spinoza on Philosophical Scepticism". This subtle, informed, totally disciplined piece explores Spinoza's position on (roughly) the problem of Cartesian circularity. No one interested in that problem, or scepticism generally, should overlook it."
Michael Della Rocca in zijn Spinoza-boek over ditzelfde artikel van Willis Doney: "Useful overview of Spinoza on skepticism."
