The Works of Spinoza in English
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1. The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, Translated with an introduction by R. H. M. Elwes (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1883–1884). 2 vols.
In Bohn’s Philosophical Library. Vol. 1 includes the Theologico-Political Treatise (followed by Spinoza’s notes) and A Political Treatise (in the translation of H. A. Gosset). Vol. 2 includes On the Improvement of the Understanding, The Ethics, and a selection from Spinoza’s correspondence.
1a. Reprinted in facsimile in New York by Dover Publications, 1951, in two volumes, with a bibliographical note by Francesco Cordasco.
1b. Reprinted in facsimile in New York by Dover Publications, 1951, in one volume, also with the bibliographic note by Cordasco.
1c. Reprinted in facsimile in Gloucester, MA, by Peter Smith, 1962, in two volumes.
1d. A second, revised edition by Elwes was published in London in Bohn’s Philosophical Library by G. Bell and Sons, 1887, in two volumes.
2. Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics and Correspondence, Translated by R. H. M. Elwes, with introduction by Frank Sewall (Washington, DC: M. Walter Dunne, 1901).
Reprint of Vol. 2 of Elwes, No. 1. 2a. Reprinted in New York by Willey Book Company, 1901.
2b. Reprinted in New York by Aladdin Book Company, 1901.
2c. Reprinted in New York by Tudor Publishing Company, 1934.
3. The Philosophy of Spinoza Selected from His Chief Works, With a life of Spinoza and an introduction by Joseph Ratner (New York: The Modern Library, 1927).
A radical rearrangement, occasional abridgement, and attempted integration of the Ethics (based on the White-Stirling translation) with selections from the Improvement of the Understanding, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, A Political Treatise, and the correspondence (all in the Elwes translation), with some revisions of these translations. Ratner’s boast is that “it is the only time, probably, [that] dismembering a treatise actually made it more unified” (p. vi).
3a. Reprinted in New York by Carlton House (n.d.), but without crediting Ratner or including his life of Spinoza and introduction.
4. Spinoza Selections, Edited with an introduction by John Wild (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930).
Includes the Improvement of the Understanding (in the Elwes translation, No. 1) and Ethics (in the White-Stirling translation, No. 23c), as well as part of the Short Treatise and “all of the letters of real philosophical importance” (in the Wolf translations, Nos. 13 and 50).
5. The Collected Works of Spinoza, Edited and translated by Edwin Curley (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985), Vol. I.
Includes Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect; Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being; Descartes’ “Principles of Philosophy” with the Metaphysical Thoughts; Ethics; and Letters 1–28 (i.e., through June 1665).
6. A Spinoza Reader: The Ethics and Other Works, Edited and translated by Edwin Curley (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994).
Includes selections from the major works, including letters, plus the complete Ethics (a revised version of the translation in Curley, No. 5), along with an introduction, pp. ix–xxxv. Improvement of the Understanding
7. Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione, et de via, qua optime in veram rerum cognitionem dirigitur, Translated with preface by W. Hale White (London: Duckworth & Co., 1889).
7a. Published in an edition revised by Amelia Hutchison Stirling in London by T. Fisher Unwin, 1895.
7b. Reprinted by Duckworth & Co. in 1899.
7c. Facsimile reprint of No. 7b. in Freeport, NY, by Books for Libraries Press, 1969.
7d. White’s preface in No. 7a (pp. v–xxx) was reprinted in Boucher (1999), No. 351, Selection 139, Vol. 6, pp. 187–195, under the title, “On the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione.”
De intellectus emendatione. See Waton (1932), No. 2501b.
8. How To Improve Your Mind, Translated by R. H. M. Elwes, with biographical notes by Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1956).
A complete reprint of the Elwes translation of On the Improvement of Human Understanding (from No. 1).
9. On the Improvement of the Understanding, Translated with an introduction by Joseph Katz, Library of the Liberal Arts, No. 67 (New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1958).
10. Treatise on the Improvement of the Understanding, Translated with introduction, commentary, and index by Paul D. Eisenberg, Philosophy Research Archives, Vol. 3 (1977), pp. 553–679.
Published on microfiche. Available in hardcopy and microfiche from the Philosophy Documentation Center (Bowling Green, OH).
11. De Dijn, Herman, Spinoza: The Way to Wisdom (West Lafayette: Indiana University Press, 1996).
Following chapters on Spinoza’s life and work and on the text of Spinoza’s Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect, provides a detailed section-by-section commentary on the Treatise, along with the Latin text from Gebhardt’s edition, with Edwin Curley’s English translation (1985), No. 5, on facing pages. Concludes with three chapters intended to “summarize the insights of philosophy, properly speaking, as developed in the Ethics, to which the Treatise is the introduction.”
See also Shirley (1992), No. 29a.
Short Treatise
12. Spinoza’s Short Treatise on God, Man and Human Welfare, Translated by Lydia Gillingham Robinson (Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1909).
Also includes an essay by Albert Schwegler, “Spinoza and His Metaphysics,” pp. xiii–xxiv, as it appeared in a translation of Schwegler’s History of Philosophy published in Edinburgh by Edmonston & Co. in 1879 (No. 2164 below), complete here except for the final paragraph. This volume also presents a glossary of terms (English, Dutch, German), pp. 169–178.
13. Spinoza’s Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, Translated and edited, with an introduction and commentary and a life of Spinoza, by A. Wolf (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1910).
13a. Reprinted in New York by Russell & Russell, 1963.
14. The Book of God, Edited with an introduction by Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1958).
An abridgement of Spinoza’s Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being, based on A. Wolf’s translation, No. 13.
Principles of Cartesian Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts
Cogitata Metaphysica. See Waton (1932), No. 2501b.
15. The Principles of Descartes’ Philosophy, Religion of Science Library, No. 59, Translated, with an introduction, by Halbert Hains Britan (La Salle, IL: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1943).
16. Principles of Cartesian Philosophy, Translated by Harry E. Wedeck, with preface by Dagobert D. Runes (London: Peter Owen Ltd.; New York: Philosophical Library, 1961).
17. Earlier Philosophical Writings: The Cartesian Principles and Thoughts on Metaphysics, Library of the Liberal Arts, No. 163, Translated by Frank A. Hayes, with introduction by David Bidney (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1963).
17a. Reprinted by Irvington Publications, 1973.
18. Principles of Cartesian Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts, Followed by Lodewijk Meyer, “Inaugural Dissertation on Matter” (1660), Translated by Samuel Shirley, with introduction and notes by Steven Barbone and Lee Rice (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1998).
18a. The bibliography in this volume, pp. 160–169, is cited in the present bibliography as “Barbone and Rice (1998).”
Ethics
19. Ethics, Translated by George Eliot, edited by Thomas Deegan, Salzburg Studies in English Literature, Romantic Reassessment, No. 102 (Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, University of Salzburg, 1981).
First publication of Eliot’s translation, completed between November 1854 and February 1856, and thus the first in English. “However, because she was not able to arrange a suitable financial arrangement with Henry Bohn, the publisher of Bohn’s Philosophical Library, her translation was not published… .”—Preface, p. v.
20. Willis, Robert, Benedict de Spinoza: His Life, Correspondence, and Ethics (London: Trübner & Co., 1870).
Includes the first published English translation of the Ethics, pp. 414–647, as well as the author’s translation of the correspondence, pp. 216–413. Pollock (1880), No. 1879, p. xx, notes that Willis’ translation of the Ethics “is far too inaccurate to be of any serious use.”
20a. Reprinted in New York by Gordon Press in 1977.
20b. The “General Introduction, By Way of Preface” in No. 20, pp. vii–xliii, was reprinted in Boucher (1999), No. 351, Selection 71, Vol. 4, pp. 1–20, under the title, “Spinozism Itself.”
20c. The third section in No. 20, “The Revivers of Spinozism and Its Poets,” includes an account of the Jacobi-Lessing conversations on pp. 149–162. These pages were reprinted in Boucher (1999), No. 351, Selection 22, Vol. 1, pp. 231–237, under the title, “Fr. H. Jacobi and Lessing: Their Conversations on Spinoza and Spinozism.”
21. The Ethics of Benedict de Spinoza, Demonstrated after the Method of Geometers, and Divided into Five Parts, in Which Are Treated Separately: I. Of God, II. Of the Soul, III. Of the Affections or Passions, IV. Of Man’s Slavery, or the Force of the Passions, V. Of Man’s Freedom, or the Power of the Understanding. From the Latin. With an Introductory Sketch of His Life and Writings (New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1876).
Translator’s preface signed “D. D. S.”—usually identified as Daniel Drake Smith. The translator observes that “this is the first time that any of [Spinoza’s] works has been published in the United States” (p. iii), a point he repeats later (p. xxxvii). Pollock (1880), No. 1879, p. xx, notes that “unfortunately, the [translator] looked upon Dr. Willis [No. 20] as an authority, and copied nearly all his errors.”
21a. Reprinted in New York and London by G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1888.
22. Smith, Henry, Spinoza and His Environment: A Critical Essay; with a Translation of the Ethics (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1886).
Smith’s introductory essay, in eleven chapters, discusses Spinoza’s predecessors (especially Bacon and Descartes), Spinoza’s personality and the Ethics, and Spinoza’s influence on the environment of the nineteenth century (pp. xxxv–clxxix). The translation of the Ethics appears on pp. 1–244. 22a. Chapter 6, “Spinoza’s Personality,” pp. xcvi–cv; Chapter 7, “Spinoza’s Ethics Examined,” pp. cvi–cxvi; and Chapter 8, “Spinoza’s Ethics—Concluded,” pp. cxvii–cxxxi, were reprinted in Boucher (1999), No. 351, Selection 115, Vol. 5, pp. 226–240, under the title, “Spinoza’s Personality and Doctrine Examined.”
23. Ethic Demonstrated in Geometrical Order and Divided into Five Parts, Which Treat (1) Of God; (2) Of the Nature and Origin of the Mind; (3) Of the Nature & Origin of the Affects; (4) Of Human Bondage, or of the Strength of the Affects; (5) Of the Power of the Intellect, or of Human Liberty, Translated by W. Hale White (London: Trübner & Co., 1883).
23a. Published in a second edition, with revisions by Amelia Hutchison Stirling, by Oxford University Press in 1894.
23b. Published by Oxford in a third edition, with revisions and corrections by Stirling, 1899.
23c. Published by Oxford in a fourth edition, with revisions and corrections by Stirling, 1910.
23d. No. 23c was reprinted in Robert Maynard Hutchins (ed.), Great Books of the Western World (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952), Vol. 31, pp. 355–463.
23e. No. 23c was reprinted in facsimile in Kila, MT, by Kessinger Publishing, n.d. [1997?].
24. The Philosophy of Spinoza as Contained in the First, Second, and Fifth Parts of the “Ethics,” and in Extracts from the Third and Fourth, Translated and edited with introductory material and notes by George Stuart Fullerton (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1892).
24a. Published in a second edition by Henry Holt and Co., 1894. In the preface, Fullerton remarks that “this second edition is so different from the first that it may almost be regarded as a new book” (p. v), a complete replacement for the first edition.
24b. Fullerton’s “Critical and Explanatory Notes,” on pp. 209–261 of the 1894 edition, were reprinted in Boucher (1999), No. 351, as Selection 131, Vol. 6, pp. 85–104, under the title, “Spinoza as a Realist.”
25. Spinoza’s Ethics and De Intellectus Emendatione, Translated by Andrew Boyle, with introduction by George Santayana, Everyman’s Library, No. 481 (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1910).
25a. Published in a revised edition by Dent in 1959 (or before), replacing Santayana’s introduction with one by T. C. Gregory and adding a “Select Bibliography” of books only, none later than 1944. 25b. No. 25a. was reprinted under the title Ethics in London by Heron Books (n.d.), with a portrait of Spinoza and without the “Select Bibliography.” See also Parkinson (1989), No. 31.
26. Ethics,Preceded by On the Improvement of the Understanding, Edited, with introduction, bibliography, and index, by James Gutmann (New York: Hafner Publishing Co., 1949).
Includes the Elwes translation of On the Improvement of the Understanding (No. 1) and the White-Stirling 1899 edition of the Ethics (No. 23b), each with modifications by the editor. Also includes on pp. xxiii–xxxiv a 1933 essay on Spinoza by Frederick J. E. Woodbridge, which first appeared as No. 2625.
27. The Ethics of Spinoza: The Road to Inner Freedom, Edited with an introduction by Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1957).
A radical rearrangement and paraphrasing of the Elwes translation of the Ethics (No. 1), with changes and revisions by the editor.
27a. Reprinted in Secaucus, NJ, by The Citadel Press, 1976.
27b. Reprinted in New York by the Carol Publishing Group in 1995 as a Citadel Press Book.
The Definitions, Axioms, Postulates, and Propositions of the Ethics. See Wienpahl (1979), No. 2568.
28. The Ethics, With introduction by SPR Charter (Malibu, CA: Pangloss Press, Joseph Simon Publisher, 1981).
The translation is based “mainly” on Elwes (No. 1).
29. The Ethics and Selected Letters, Translated by Samuel Shirley, and edited, with introduction and bibliography, by Seymour Feldman (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1982).
29a. A second edition, including also a new translation by Shirley of the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (with another introduction by Feldman), was published by Hackett in 1992.
30. Ethics, Including the Improvement of the Understanding, Translated by R. H. M. Elwes, Great Books in Philosophy Series (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1989).
A reprint of Vol. 1 of Elwes, No. 1, omitting the selected correspondence. The new one and a half page introduction is unsigned.
31. Ethics, Translated by Andrew Boyle, and revised by G. H. R. Parkinson, With an introduction and notes by G. H. R. Parkinson, Everyman’s Library No. 1481 (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1989).
May be viewed as a new version, though based on Boyle’s original (No. 25).
32. Ethics, Edited and translated by Edwin Curley, with an introduction by Stuart Hampshire, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin Books, 1996).
The translation is that of No. 6; the introduction is new.
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and Tractatus Politicus
33. Blount, Charles, Miracles, No Violation of the Laws of Nature. London: Printed for Robert Sollers … 1683.
A translation of the sixth chapter of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (“Of Miracles,” pp. 1–29), with a paragraph from St. Augustine’s Letter 7, a paragraph from Thomas Burnet’s Telluris theoria sacra, and a paragraph from Dr. Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (all on pp. 30–31).
34. A Treatise Partly Theological, and Partly Political, Containing some few Discourses To prove that the Liberty of Philosophizing (that is, Making Use of Natural Reason) may be allow’d without any prejudice to Piety, or to the Peace of any Commonwealth; And that the Loss of Public Peace and Religion it self must necessarily follow, where such a Liberty of Reasoning is taken away … Translated out of Latin. London, Printed in the Year, 1689.
In Van der Linde (1871), Item 13; Hertzberger (1950), Item 377; and Oko (1964), p. 31. Full citation in Kingma and Offenberg (1985), Item 20. The first of Spinoza’s works to be translated in its entirety into English. The translator is unknown. “So far as I have looked at [this translation], the rendering is pretty accurate, but it has no great literary merit.”—Pollock (1880), No. 1879, p. xix.
35. An Account of the Life and Writings of Spinosa. To which is added, An Abstract of his Theological Political Treatise. Containing I. His Discourses of Prophecy. II. Of Prophets. III. Of the Gift of Prophecy to other Nations as well as the Jewish. IV. Of Ceremonies. V. Of Miracles. VI. Of the Dependency of Religion, and all Things related to it, on the Civil Magistrate. VII. Of the Liberty of Thinking and Speaking… . London: Printed for W. Boreham, at the Angel in Pater-Noster-Row, 1728.
Van der Linde (1871), Item 105, cites a shorter version of the title. The complete citation is given in Kingma and Offenberg (1985), Item 21.
The life, which Pollock (1899), No. 1879a, p. 383, describes as “a servile abridgement” of Colerus (No. 496), is on pp. 1–27. The “Abstract of Spinosa’s Theological Policy, &c.” is on pp. 28–96. From the Preface: “Spinosa having obtain’d as considerable a Reputation for his Virtue, and the Integrity of his Life, as for his Irreligion, and the Impiety of his Opinions: It is the Misfortune of many to be inclin’d to judge favourably of the latter, from a Deference and Esteem of the former.”
36. Treatise partly Theological and partly Political, containing Discourses to prove the Liberty of philosophizing, that is, making Use of Natural Reason, translated from the Latin. London 1737.
In Van der Linde (1871), Item 14, and in Oko (1964), p. 32. Van der Linde notes: “Cf. W. Th. Lowndes: The bibliographers manual of English literature. New edition, by Henry G. Bohn. Part IX (Lond. 1863, 8vo), p. 2481.”
37. A Treatise on Politics, Translated by William Maccall, The Cabinet of Reason, A Library of Freethought, Politics and Culture, Vol. 5 (London: Holyoake and Co., 1854).
Oko (1964), p. 2, drawing on Charles W. F. Goss, A Descriptive Bibliography of the Writings of George Jacob Holyoake (London: Crowther & Goodman, 1908), mistakenly attributes this edition to Holyoake and places the year at 1853.
37a. Maccall’s “Translator’s Preface,” pp. 1–10, was reprinted in Boucher (1999), No. 351, Selection 48, Vol. 2, pp. 254–258, under the title, “Resurrecting Spinoza in England.”
38. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: A Critical Inquiry into the History, Purpose, and Authenticity of the Hebrew Scriptures; with the Right to Free Thought and Free Discussion Asserted, and Shown To Be Not Only Consistent but Necessarily Bound up with True Piety and Good Government … From the Latin. With an introduction and notes by the editor … London: Trübner & Co., 1862.
Van der Linde (1871), Item 15, correctly attributes this anonymous work to Robert Willis, as evidenced in part by the appendix on pp. 354–359, which presents the editor’s translation of Spinoza’s letter of February 1671 (Letter 43). It is the same as that in Willis (1870), No. 20, pp. 352–359.
38a. Willis’ “Introduction: The Editor to the Reader,” pp. 1–17, was reprinted in Boucher (1999), No. 351, Selection 55, Vol. 3, pp. 53–59, under the title, “Current Beliefs and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.”
38b. A second edition was published in London by Trübner in 1868 with the same title but a different subtitle: “A Theological and Political Treatise, Showing Under a Series of Heads that Freedom of Thought and of Discussion May Not Only Be Granted with Safety to Religion and the Peace of the State, but Cannot Be Denied Without Danger to Both the Public Peace and True Piety.”
39. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Translated with an introduction by R. H. M. Elwes, Revised edition (London: Routledge, 1895).
A reprint of Vol. 1 of Elwes, No. 1d. Includes the Political Treatise. Issued as No. 91 in Sir John Lubbock’s “Hundred Books” series.
40. Writings on Political Philosophy, Edited with an introduction by Albert G. A.Balz (New York: D. Appleton-Century Co., 1937).
Includes the Tractatus Politicus and selections from the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus in the 1883 Elwes translation (No. 1), with occasional revisions by the editor.
41. A Theologico-Political Treatise and a Political Treatise, Translated with an introduction by R. H. M. Elwes, with a Bibliographical Note by Francesco Cordasco (New York: Dover Publications, 1951).
A reprint of Vol. 1 of Elwes, No. 1a.
42.Theologico-Political Treatise, Translated, with introduction and notes, by Frank M. Vanderhoof, Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Columbia University, 1952.
42a. Available from UMI (Order No. AAD00–04599).
43. The Political Works: The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus in Part and the Tractatus Politicus in Full, Edited and translated, with an introduction and notes, by A. G. Wernham (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1958). 44. Spinoza on Freedom of Thought: Selections from Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and Tractatus Politicus, Edited and translated by T. E. Jessop (Montreal: Mario Casalini, Ltd., 1962). 45. Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Translated by Samuel Shirley, with introduction by Brad S. Gregory (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1989).
45a. A second edition was published by Brill in 1991.
45b. Reprinted by Hackett Publishing Co., in hardcover under the original title and in paperback under the title, Theological-Political Treatise.
Hebrew Grammar
46. Hebrew Grammar, Edited and translated, with an introduction, by Maurice J. Bloom (New York: Philosophical Library, 1962).
46a. Published in London by Vision, 1963.
Correspondence
47. A Letter Expostulatory to a Convert from Protestant Christianity to Roman Catholicism (London: Trübner and Co., 1869).
14 pages. An unsigned translation, with an introduction and notes, of Letter 76 to Albert Burgh. This is Robert Willis’ work. The same translation appears in Willis (1870), No. 20, pp. 404–410.
47a. Reprinted in Mount Pleasant, Ramsgate, by Thomas Scott , 1869.
48. The Reply of Benedict Spinoza, to the Letter of Albert de Burgh, Convert to Romanism, Who had urged him to embrace the same Faith (Folkestone: W. P. Birch & Co., n.d.).
8 pages. This unsigned translation—by R. C. Jenkins—of Letter 76 was published in an edition of 50 copies in about 1890 for private circulation. A copy is in the British Library.
Correspondence. See Willis (1870), No. 20.
49. Nachbildung der im Jahre 1902 noch erhaltenen eigenhändigen Briefe des Benedictus Despinoza, Edited by W. Meijer (The Hague: Von Mouton & Co., 1903).
Includes facsimile copies of 12 letters by Spinoza (and of the title page of a copy of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus with his inscription), along with two separate booklets, one of which contains a transcription of this material and translations into Dutch, German, and English. The English translations are on pp. 67–84.
50. The Correspondence of Spinoza, Translated and edited with introduction and annotations by A. Wolf (New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, n.d. [1927]).
50a. Published in London by George Allen & Unwin, 1928.
50b. Reprinted in London by Frank Cass & Co., 1966.
51. Letters to Friend and Foe, Edited with a preface by Dagobert D. Runes (New York: Philosophical Library, 1966).
Presents only Spinoza’s letters to others. Based upon the translation of R. H. M. Elwes (No. 1), with minor changes and revisions by the editor.
52. Spinoza: The Letters, Translated by Samuel Shirley, with introduction and notes by Steven Barbone, Lee Rice, and Jacob Adler (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995).
52a. The bibliography, pp. 359–380, is cited in the present bibliography as “Barbone, Rice, and Adler (1995).”
Excerpts
53. The Living Thoughts of Spinoza, Selected with an introduction by Arnold Zweig (New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1939).
Selections from the Elwes translation of the Improvement of the Understanding, Ethics, and the correspondence (No. 1). The introductory essay was translated by Eric Katz and Barrows Mussey. McCall (1943), No. 1595, remarks that Zweig’s “view of Spinozism as arising out of the psychopathology of [Spinoza’s] refusal to forgive his father … for the death of this mother [provides] a good example of the psychoanalytical method at its worst when applied to history” (p. 138n6).
53a. Reprinted in Philadelphia by David MacKay Company, 1939.
53b. Published in a second edition in London by Cassell and Company, 1943.
53c. No. 53a was reprinted in New York under the title, Arnold Zweig Presents the Living Thoughts of Spinoza, by Premier Books, 1959.
54. Spinoza Dictionary, Edited by Dagobert D. Runes, with a foreword by Albert Einstein (New York: Philosophical Library, 1951).
54a. Published in New York in an abridged version (92 pages), edited by Runes, under the title, Reflections and Maxims, by the Philosophical Library, 1965.
55. Spinoza in a Nutshell, Edited with introduction by Robert Van de Weyer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998).
88 pages. Presents brief excerpts from the Treatise on the Improvement of the Understanding (here called “The Improvement of Well-Being”), the Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being (here called “God, Humans, and Their Well-Being”), the Ethics, and the correspondence. Selections are not cited to their source; translations are not identified. The introduction is on pp. 9–22.
Works Sometimes Attributed to Spinoza
56. Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow, With introduction by G. ten Doesschate (Nieuwkoop: B. de Graaf, 1963).
Facsimile of the original Dutch text (1687), with introduction (pp. 7–26) in English. Published in the series, Dutch Classics on History of Science, Vol. V, under the supervision of the Netherlands Society for the History of Medicine, Mathematics and Exact Sciences.
57. Spinoza’s Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow and Calculation of Chances, Edited and translated with an introduction, explanatory notes, and an appendix by Michael J. Petry, International Archives of the History of Ideas, No. 108 (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1985).
The Appendix is entitled, “The Authenticity and Significance of the Texts on the Rainbow and Probability,” pp. 91–151.
See also Popkin and Signer (1987), No. 1920. |
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