Spinoza to the Letter

Studies in Words, Texts and Books
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14946-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 871 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This is the first collection of Spinoza studies that deals exclusively with the language, style, and the transmission and editing of his texts. It includes investigations into the authorship of some minor texts, Spinoza’s Latinity, the Hebrew passages in the Tractatus theologico-politicus, his way of handling quotations and his use of the first person singular. It contains a full concordance of the Tractatus de intellectus emendatione, an inventory of the copies of Spinoza’s Posthumous Works in the Netherlands and an account of the editions produced in the nineteenth century. In addition, there are essays on the life and thought of Spinoza’s publisher Jan Rieuwertsz, on the question of who printed his books, and on principles and choices in editing.

Contributors include: Fokke Akkerman, Wout Jac. van Bekkum, Michelle Beyssade, Eugenio Canone, Johan Gerritsen, Iiro Kajanto, Jelle Kingma, Jacqueline Lagrée, J.H. Leopold, Clasina G. Manusov-Verhage, Filippo Mignini, Pierre-François Moreau, H.J.M. Nellen, Michael John Petry, Esmée Schilte, Hans Gerhard Senger, Piet Steenbakkers, Pina Totaro, and J.J.V.M. de Vet.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Akkerman, F.

Steenbakkers, Piet

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations
Preface

Discours d’ouverture, Pierre-François Moreau

I. LANGUAGE, STYLE AND VOCABULARY
1. Le langage de Spinoza et sa pratique du discours, J.H. Leopold
2. Spinoza’s Latinity, Iiro Kajanto
3. Deux latinistes: Descartes et Spinoza, Michelle Beyssade
4. Index locorum du Tractatus de intellectus emendatione, Eugenio Canone & Pina Totaro
5. La citation dans le Traité théologico-politique, Jacqueline Lagrée
6. La terminologie du “Je” dans le Traité théologico-politique, Pierre-François Moreau
7. Quelques remarques sur les mots et citations hébraïques dans le Tractatus theologico-politicus, Wout Jac. van Bekkum

II. AUTHORSHIP, TRANSMISSION, TRANSLATION AND PRINTING
8. Algebra, chances and the rainbow, Michael John Petry
9. Salomon Dierquens, auteur du Stelkonstige reeckening van den regenboog et du Reeckening van kanssen, J.J.V.M. de Vet
10. Le texte du Tractatus de intellectus emendatione et sa transmission, Filippo Mignini
11. Tractatus theologico-politicus: texte latin, traductions néerlandaises et Adnotationes, Fokke Akkerman
12. Jan Rieuwertsz, marchand libraire et éditeur de Spinoza, Clasina G. Manusov-Verhage
13. Printing Spinoza – some questions, Johan Gerritsen
14. Spinoza’s Posthumous Works: an inventory of the copies now in the Netherlands, Esmée Schilte & Piet Steenbakkers

III. EDITING
15. Spinoza editions in the nineteenth century, Jelle Kingma
16. On editing the correspondence of Hugo Grotius, H.J.M. Nellen
17. Vollständigkeit oder pragmatische Begrenzung der Editionen?, Hans Gerhard Senger

List of works cited
Index of names

Über Autor(innen)

Fokke Akkerman, Ph.D. (1980) in Arts, University of Groningen, Associate Professor of Neo-Latin (retired). He has published on Neo-Latin, especially on Spinoza and early Dutch humanism.

Piet Steenbakkers, Ph.D. (1994) in Philosophy, University of Groningen, teaches History of Modern Philosophy in Utrecht University and University College Utrecht, and he holds the chair of Spinoza studies in the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Publications mainly on Spinoza.