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In Printing Spinoza Jeroen van de Ven systematically examines all seventeenth-century printed editions of Spinoza’s writings, published between 1663 and 1694, as well as their variant ‘issues’. In focus are Spinoza’s 1663 adumbration of René Descartes’s ‘Principles of Philosophy’ with his own ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theological-Political Treatise’ (1670), and the posthumous writings (1677), including the famously-known ‘Ethics’.
Van de Ven’s descriptive bibliography studies, contextualizes, and records all aspects of the publication history of Spinoza’s writings from manuscript to print and assesses their immediate reception. It discusses the printed books’ codicology, philology, typographical and textual relationships, illustration programmes, as well as their dissemination in early Enlightenment Europe, in view of the physical aspects of 1,246 extant copies and their provenance.
Van de Ven’s descriptive bibliography studies, contextualizes, and records all aspects of the publication history of Spinoza’s writings from manuscript to print and assesses their immediate reception. It discusses the printed books’ codicology, philology, typographical and textual relationships, illustration programmes, as well as their dissemination in early Enlightenment Europe, in view of the physical aspects of 1,246 extant copies and their provenance.
Price: $252.00
Pages: 508
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World
Publication Date:
23 March 2022
ISBN: 9789004467989
Format: Other
“This volume is a remarkable scholarly achievement. There are very few people who could have carried it out, and even fewer who would have wanted to. Spinoza scholars, of course, but also historians of philosophy, intellectual historians, book historians, conservators and archivists all owe Van de Ven an enormous debt of gratitude. His expert, meticulous and exhaustive (and probably exhausting) work on this volume has resulted in an invaluable research tool.”
Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In: Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2023), pp. 241–243.
Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin-Madison. In: Studia Rosenthaliana, Vol. 49, No. 2 (2023), pp. 241–243.
Jeroen M.M. van de Ven, Ph.D. (2000, Erasmus University Rotterdam) is a specialist in the history of the philosophy of Descartes and Spinoza, and the history of the printed book. He is coeditor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Spinoza (2014).