Necessarily Eternal

A 2004 Translation of TTP

Done by Prof. Martin D. Yaffe (Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Texas), information about the book and the translator's remarks can be found here.

Spinoza Scholar Wins NEH Fellowship

The Leiter Reports has a list of winners of the NEH Fellowships who are philosophers, and a Spinoza scholar is among the eight on the list. Congratulations to Prof. Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame) with his winning project "Reconceiving Benedict Spinoza's Metaphysics and Ethics"!

New Book: Spinoza's 'Ethics': A Reader's Guide

Written by Prof. J. Thomas Cook (Rollins College), this new addition to Spinoza literature, according to its synopsis, is a "comprehensive and thorough guide to Spinoza's masterpiece of Rationalist thought".

Spinoza Podcast

Prof. Nigel Warburton (Open University) of Virtual Philosopher has a couple of Spinoza items on podcast: the first one contains a reading from his own work Philosophy: The Classics ,and the second one contains a discussion by Prof. Susan James (University of London - Birkbeck) on Spinoza's views on the passions.

Non-Spinoza Novella

My friend and former co-worker James Slater, who is now a graduate student at the UNC Chapel Hill's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures has just published his first novella Like Phosphorescent Desert Buttons. I thought I would help him spread the word here.

Spinoza Articles on Multitudes

The Multitudes online has quite a handful articles related to Spinoza (in French), among those: an interview with Alexandre Matheron (by Laurent Bove and Pierre François Moreau), a very short interview with Jonathan Israel, Antonio Negri's preface to The Savage Anomaly, and forewords to The Savage Anomaly by Deleuze, Macherey, and Matheron.

A Play About Spinoza

The New York Times has the article about a new play by David Ives called New Jerusalem with this subtitle: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation: Amsterdam, July 27, 1656. One of the cast members is Fyvush Finkel, who plays public defender Douglas Wambaugh in my all-time favorite tv show Picket Fences. Thanks to Prof. David Leverenz (English, Florida) who alerted me to this play.

New Book: "Spinoza's Radical Cartesian Mind"

Published in early November last year and written by Prof. Tammy Nyden-Bullock (Grinnell College), its description and table of contents can be found here. The Chronicle of Higher Education appears to have an article about the book, though its acess is restricted to subscribers.

A Review on the New TTP Translation

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews has the article by Prof. Francesca di Poppa (Texas Tech) on the new TTP Translation.