Benedict de Spinoza

Recommended reading: Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

A Kibitz on Pure Reason, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein and Michael Weiss, Jewcy, March 17, 2007 et seq.
(via Stefan Beck at Arma Virumque)

A Philosophical Puzzle: Who Was This Guy Spinoza? By Hillary Putnam, review of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity, by Rebecca Goldstein, New York Observer, December 18, 2006

The Neurologist and the Philosopher, review by Erica Goode of Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (2003), by Antonio Damasio, Scientific American, March 2003

Review by Neil Levy of Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (2003), by Antonio Damasio, Metapsychology, February 24, 2003

Fear Factor, review by Colin McGinn of Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (2003), by Antonio Damasio,, New York Times, February 23, 2003

Spinoza's Project, by Alan Mittleman, First Things, January, 1998