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Philosophy

Spinoza’s Ethics edited by Clare Carlisle, translated by George Eliot

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September 2020, no. 424

Spinoza’s Ethics edited by Clare Carlisle, translated by George Eliot

Princeton University Press, $58.99 pb, 381 pp

Philosophy

Spinoza’s Ethics edited by Clare Carlisle, translated by George Eliot

by •
September 2020, no. 424

Becoming better acquainted with an author may give rise to a surprise, or two. For example, the daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft (author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman) and William Godwin (author of Political Justice) is the author of Frankenstein. Mary Shelley met her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley, through his devotion to her father’s anarchist political philosophy. Gaining an awareness of the surprisingly complex threads that link one thinker to the next in dynamic webs of influence is one of the deep pleasures of scholarship.

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Moira Gatens

Moira Gatens is Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. Her most recent publications include the co-editorship (with Anthony Uhlmann) of two special issue journals devoted to essays on Spinoza and Art: Textual Practice 2019, 33 (5) and Intellectual History Review 2020, 30 (3).

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