文档介绍：Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
by Gilles Defeuze
Translated by Robert Hurley
BENEDICT US DE SP IN 0 ZA
natura,Deu$,rerum cui cognitus oreio,
Hoc Spinofa &lItu cOJ1tpicienclus erato
vir; ..re mentem
Zeuxidi, artifices non valuero manus.
IHa vlget 't;s: ilL" fublimia tractat:
Runc <" cupis nofcere,fcripta. lege. --r
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This book was originally published as Spinoza: Philosophie pratique,
Table of Contents
First edition in English, City Lights Books, 1988
Preface........... ; ......................... .
Cover: Meditation by the Sea (Unidentified Artist) ca. 1855.
Courtesy, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Chapter One: Life of Spinoza .... ~ ............... 3
M. and M. Karolik Collection
Chapter Two: On the Difference between The Ethics
Book design bv Patricia and a Morality .................. , . . . . . . . . . . 17
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Chapter Three: The Letters on Evil
(correspondence with Blyenbergh) .............. 30
Deleuze, Gilles.
Spinoza : practical philosophy. Chapter Four: Index of the Main Concepts
Translation of: Spinoza, Philosophie pratique. of the Ethics ............................... 44
I. Spinoza, Benedictusde, 1632-1677. I. Title.
1988 170'.92'4 88-2600 Chapter Five: Spinoza's Evolution (On the
ISBN 0-87286-220-8 pletion of the Treatise on the Intellect) ..... 110
ISBN 0-87286-218-6 (pbk.)
Chapter Six: Spinoza and Us ................... 122
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Preface
by Robert Hurley
This work is provocative from the start: a book on Spinoza,
subtitled Practical Philosophy, that starts with the name Nietz­
sche. As Deleuze will say, we always start from the middle of