Complete Works

The only complete edition in English of Baruch Spinoza's works, this volume features Samuel Shirley"™s preeminent translations, distinguished at once by the lucidity and fluency with which they convey the flavor and meaning of Spinoza"™s original texts. Michael L. Morgan provides a general introduction that places Spinoza in Western philosophy and culture and sketches the philosophical, scientific, religious, moral and political dimensions of Spinoza"™s thought. Morgan"™s brief introductions to each work give a succinct historical, biographical, and philosophical overview. A chronology and index are included.