Stuart Hampshire, one of the most eminent British philosophers of the twentieth century, will be perhaps best remembered for his work on the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, all of which is gathered now in this volume. Hampshire's classic 1951 book Spinoza remains the best introduction to this thinker, and it is reprinted here. But what gives particular interest to this new volume is the inclusion of Hampshire's last work "Spinoza and Spinozism," an extended presentation of a Spinozist philosophical worldview, as ...
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Stuart Hampshire, one of the most eminent British philosophers of the twentieth century, will be perhaps best remembered for his work on the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, all of which is gathered now in this volume. Hampshire's classic 1951 book Spinoza remains the best introduction to this thinker, and it is reprinted here. But what gives particular interest to this new volume is the inclusion of Hampshire's last work "Spinoza and Spinozism," an extended presentation of a Spinozist philosophical worldview, as well as Hampshire's influential 1962 essay "Spinoza and the Idea of Freedom."
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