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‎Spinoza‎

‎Spinoza et ses contemporains.‎

‎Paris Félix Alcan 1923 1 vol. relié in-8, demi-chagrin cerise, dos à nerfs orné de fleurons dorés, pièce de titre de chagrin gris, tête dorée, couvertures et dos conservés, 495 pp. 3e édition revue et complétée. Très bon exemplaire, bien relié à l'époque.‎

‎Spinoza en Angleterre. Sciences et r flexions sur les sciences‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 215 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):French, English. ISBN 9782503593838.‎

‎Summary Le volume s'interroge sur la place de Spinoza dans les milieux intellectuels, philosophiques et scientifiques de l'Angleterre et de l'Europe du XVIIe si cle, et il analyse les contextes scientifiques privil gi s qui ont fourni Spinoza plusieurs motifs de r flexion et qui ont compt ensuite parmi ses principaux lieux de r ception. Le rapport entre Spinoza et le d bat philosophique en Angleterre a retenu l'attention des historiens depuis longtemps. Il s'agit d'un terrain historiographique complexe o questions de sources, r ception des id es et enjeux pol miques se m lent souvent.La premi re partie du volume a une approche plus th matique : on se focalise sur un th me de la philosophie de Spinoza pour y voir, comme dans un prisme, le reflet des d bats crois s entre Pays-Bas et Angleterre. La deuxi me partie du volume est consacr e principalement Spinoza et la consid ration du rapport avec la physique hobbesienne. La troisi me partie du volume porte sur les pol miques autour des ?uvres de Spinoza qui furent lues durant le dix-huiti me si cle en Angleterre et sur le continent, les sp culations philosophiques d'un cart sien ath e et les ?uvres d'un impie. Le parcours intellectuel du livre, qui rassemble les contributions de A. Di Nardo, R. Evangelista, G. Giglioni, E. Guillemeau, M. Laerke, F. Mignini, A. Sangiacomo, C. Santinelli, M. Sanna, C. Secretan, L. Simonutti, T. Verbeek, s'ach ve par la postface de Pierre-Fran ois Moreau. TABLE OF CONTENTS Andrea Sangiacomo et Luisa Simonutti, Pr face Spinoza et la culture scientifique Theo Verbeek (Univ. Utrecht), Spinoza et la science nouvelle : Descartes ou Hobbes ? Luisa Simonutti (ISPF-CNR), Dans le cabinet scientifique du philosophe: Spinoza et les sciences m dicales Guido Giglioni (Univ. Macerata), The Barnacled Conatus, or the Power of Self-Preservation in England before and after Spinoza Annunziata Di Nardo (Univ. Chieti), Note sur le d veloppement du concept de m moire chez Spinoza Spinoza et Hobbes Catherine Secretan (ENS-CNRS, Lyon), De l'Angleterre aux Pays-Bas: Hobbes et l'espace d'une trading zone Cristina Santinelli (Univ. Urbino), Conatus et corpora simplicissima. Hobbes et Spinoza sur la nature et l'origine du mouvement Andrea Sangiacomo (Univ. Groningen), Hypoth ses sur la coh sion : Spinoza et Leibniz interpr tes de la physique de Hobbes Filippo Mignini (Univ. Macerata), Hobbes et Spinoza : nature et puissance du vouloir Racines et diss minations Evelyne Guillemeau (Lyc e Galil e de Gu rande), Le statut de l'exp rience dans la discussion entre Boyle et Spinoza sur le salp tre Mogens Laerke (CNRS, MFO), Henry More, Spinoza, et le double statut de la Kaabbale Roberto Evangelista (ISPF-CNR), Droit de nature et forme politique. Mo se entre Spinoza et Toland Manuela Sanna (ISPF-CNR), Remarques sur ?imagination? et ?corps? sous la plume de deux spinoziens italiens : Biagio Garofalo et Tommaso Rossi Pierre-Fran ois Moreau (ENS, Lyon), Postface Index des noms‎

‎Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn. Neue vermehrte Auflage. - [THE FIRST EVER TRANSLATION OF BRUNO'S ""DE UNO ET CAUSA""...]‎

‎Breslau, Gottl. Löwe, 1789, 8vo. Very beautiful contemporary red full calf binding with five raised bands and gilt green leather title-label to richly gilt spine. elaborate gilt borders to boards, inside which a ""frame"" made up of gilt dots, with giltcorner-ornamentations. Edges of boards gilt and inner gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Minor light brownspotting. Marginal staining to the last leaves. Engraved frontispiece-portrait of Spinoza, engraved title-vignette (double-portrait, of Lessing and Mendelssohn), engraved end-vignette (portrait of Jacobi). Frontispiece, title-page, LI, (1, -errata), 440 pp. Magnificent copy.‎

‎First edition thus, being the seminal second edition, the ""neue vermehrte Auflage"" (new and expanded edition), which has the hugely important 180 pp. of ""Beylage"" for the first time, which include the first translation into any language of any part of Giordano Bruno's ""de Uno et Causa..."" (pp. 261-306) as well as several other pieces of great importance to the ""Pantheismusstreit"" and to the interpretation of the philosophy of Spinoza and Leibniz, here for the first time in print. The present translation of Bruno seems to be the earliest translation of any of Bruno's works into German, and one of the earliest translations of Bruno at all - as far as we can establish, the second, only preceded by an 18th century translation into English of ""Spaccio della bestia trionfante"". It is with the present edition of Jacobi's work that the interest in Bruno is founded and with which Bruno is properly introduced to the modern world. Jacobi not only provides what is supposedly the second earliest translation of any of Bruno's works ever to appear, he also establishes the great influence that Bruno had on two of our greatest thinkers, Spinoza and Leibnitz. It is now generally accepted that Spinoza founds his ethical thought upon Bruno and that Lebnitz has taken his concept of the ""Monads"" from him. It is Jacobi who, with the second edition of his ""Letters on Spinoza..."", for the first time ever puts Bruno where he belongs and establishes his position as one of the key figures of modern philosophy and thought. Bruno's works, the first editions of which are all of the utmost scarcity, were not reprinted in their time, and new editions of them did not begin appearing until the 19th century. For three centuries his works had been hidden away in libraries, where only few people had access to them. Thus, as important as his teachings were, thinkers of the ages to come were largely reliant on more or less reliable renderings and reproductions of his thoughts. As Jacobi states in the preface to the second edition of his ""Letters on Spinoza..."", ""There appears in this new edition, under the title of Appendices (""Beylage""), different essays, of which I will here first give an account. The first Appendix is an excerpt from the extremely rare book ""De la causa, principio, et Uno"", by Jordan Bruno. This strange man was born, one knows not in which year, in Nola, in the Kingdom of Naples"" and died on February 17th 1600 in Rome on the stake. With great diligence Brucker has been gathering information on him, but in spite of that has only been able to deliver fragments [not in translation]. For a long time his works were, partly neglected due to their obscurity, partly not respected due to the prejudice against the new opinions and thoughts expressed in them, and partly loathed and suppressed due to the dangerous teachings they could contain. On these grounds, the current scarcity of his works is easily understood. Brucker could only get to see the work ""De Minimo"", La Croce only had the book ""De Immenso et Innumerabilibus"" in front of him, or at least he only provides excerpts from this [also not in translation], as Heumann does only from the ""Physical Theorems"" [also small fragments, not in translation]"" also Bayle had, of Bruno's metaphysical works, himself also merely read this work, of which I here provide an excerpt."" (Vorrede, pp. (VII)-VIII - own translation from the German). Jacobi continues by stating that although everyone complains about the obscurity of Bruno's teachings and thoughts, some of the greatest thinkers, such as Gassendi, Descartes, ""and our own Leibnitz"" (p. IX) have taken important parts of their theorems and teachings from him. ""I will not discuss this further, and will merely state as to the great obscurity (""grossen Dunkelheit"") of which people accuse Bruno, that I have found this in neither his book ""de la Causa"" nor in ""De l'Infinito Universo et Mondi"", of which I will speak implicitly on another occasion. As to the first book, my readers will be able to judge for themselves from the sample (""Probe"") that I here present. My excerpt can have become a bit more comprehensible due to the fact that I have only presented the System of Bruno himself, the ""Philosophia Nolana"" which he himself calls it, in its continuity... My main purpose with this excerpt is, by uniting Bruno with Spinoza, at the same time to show and explain the ""Summa of Philosophy"" (""Summa der Philosophie"") of ""En kai Pan"" [in Greek characters - meaning ""One and All""]. ... It is very difficult to outline ""Pantheism"" in its broader sense more purely and more beautifully than Bruno has done."" (Vorrede pp. IX-XI - own translation from the German). So not only does Jacobi here provide this groundbreaking piece of Bruno's philosophy in the first translation ever, and not only does he provide one of the most important interpretations of Spinoza's philosophy and establishes the importance of Bruno to much of modern thought, he also presents Bruno as the primary exponent of ""pantheism"", thereby using Bruno to change the trajectory of modern thought and influencing all philosophy of the decades to come. After the second edition of Jacobi's ""Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza"", no self-respecting thinker could neglect the teachings of Bruno"" he could no longer be written off as having ""obscure"" and insignificant teachings, and one could no longer read Spinoza nor Leibnitz without thinking of Bruno. It is with this edition that the world rediscovers Bruno, never to forget him again.WITH THE FIRST EDITION OF ""UEBER DIE LEHRE DES SPINOZA"" (1785), JACOBI BEGINS THE FAMOUS ""PATHEISMUSSTREIT"", which focused attention on the apparent conflict between human freedom and any systematic, philosophical interpretation of reality. In 1780, Jacobi (1743-1819), famous for coining the term nihilism, advocating ""belief"" and ""revelation"" instead of speculative reason, thereby anticipating much of present-day literature, and for his critique of the Sturm-und-Drang-era, had a conversation with Lessing, in which Lessing stated that the only true philosophy was Spinozism. This led Jacobi to a protracted and serious study of Spinoza's works. After Lessing's death, in 1783 Jacobi began a lengthy letter-correspondende with Mendelssohn, a close friend of Lessing, on the philosophy of Spinoza. These letters, with commentaries by Jacobi, are what constitute the first edition of ""Ueber die lehre des Spinoza"", as well as the first part of the second edition. The second edition is of much greater importance, however, due to greatly influential Appendices. The work caused great furor and the enmity of the Enlightenment thinkers. Jacobi was ridiculed by his contemporaries for attempting to reintroduce into philosophy belief instead of reason, was seen as an enemy of reason and Enlightenment, as a pietist, and as a Jesuit. But the publication of the work not only caused great furor in wider philosophical circles, there was also a personal side to the scandal which has made it one of the most debated books of the period: ""Mendelssohn enjoyed, as noted at the outset, a lifelong friendship with G. E. Lessing... Along with Mendelssohn, Lessing embraced the idea of a purely rational religion and would endorse Mendelssohn's declaration: ""My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means"" and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths"" (Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 3/2, p. 205). To pietists of the day, such declarations were scandalous subterfuges of an Enlightenment project of assimilating religion to natural reason... While Mendelssohn skillfully avoided that confrontation, he found himself reluctantly unable to remain silent when, after Lessing's death, F. H. Jacobi contended that Lessing embraced Spinoza's pantheism and thus exemplified the Enlightenment's supposedly inevitable descent into irreligion.Following private correspondence with Jacobi on the issue and an extended period when Jacobi (in personal straits at the time) did not respond to his objections, Mendelssohn attempted to set the record straight about Lessing's Spinozism in ""Morning Hours"". Learning of Mendelssohn's plans incensed Jacobi who expected to be consulted first and who accordingly responded by publishing, without Mendelssohn's consent, their correspondence - ""On the Teaching of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn"" - a month before the publication of ""Morning Hours"". Distressed on personal as well as intellectual levels by the controversy over his departed friend's pantheism, Mendelssohn countered with a hastily composed piece, ""To the Friends of Lessing: an Appendix to Mr. Jacobi's Correspondence on the Teaching of Spinoza"". According to legend, so anxious was Mendelssohn to get the manuscript to the publisher that, forgetting his overcoat on a bitterly cold New Year's eve, he delivered the manuscript on foot to the publisher. That night he came down with a cold from which he died four days later, prompting his friends to charge Jacobi with responsibility for Mendelssohn's death.The sensationalist character of the controversy should not obscure the substance and importance of Mendelssohn's debate with Jacobi. Jacobi had contended that Spinozism is the only consistent position for a metaphysics based upon reason alone and that the only solution to this metaphysics so detrimental to religion and morality is a leap of faith, that salto mortale that poor Lessing famously refused to make. Mendelssohn counters Jacobi's first contention by attempting to demonstrate the metaphysical inconsistency of Spinozism. He takes aim at Jacobi's second contention by demonstrating how the ""purified Spinozism"" or ""refined pantheism"" embraced by Lessing is, in the end, only nominally different from theism and thus a threat neither to religion nor to morality."" (SEP).The Beylagen, which are not included in the 1785 first edition and only appear with the 1789 second edition, include: I. Auszug aus Jordan Bruno von Nola. Von der Ursache, dem Princip und dem Einen (p. 261-306) II. Diokles an Diotime über den Atheismus (p. 307-327) translation of Lettre ... sur l'Athéisme by F. Hemsterhuis.‎

‎1- [SPINOZA (Baruch)]. Reflexions curieuses d'un Esprit Des-Intéressé sur les matières les plus Importantes au Salut, tant Public que Particulier. Cologne, Claude Emanuel, 1678 [Première page de titre]. Traitté des Cérémonies Superstitieuses des Juifs tant Anciens que Modernes. Amsterdam, Jacob Smith, 1678 [Deuxième page de titre]. 2 pages de titre différentes, 24 p. (préface), 4 p. (table), 531p., [31] p. de table et errata, 30 p. ("Remarques").2- BOULAINVILLIERS (Henri de), FENELON (F. de Salignac de la Mothe), LAMY (François). Réfutation des erreurs de Benoit de Spinosa, par M. de Fénelon (), par le P. Lami () & par M. le Comte de Boullainvilliers, avec la Vie de Spinosa, Ecrite par M. Jean Colerus, () ; augmentée de beaucoup de particularités tirées dune Vie manuscrite de ce philosophe, faites par un de ses amis [Lucas, médecin à La Haye]. Bruxelles, François Foppens, 1731. (10), 158 p. et 386 p.3- OROBIO (Isaac). Certamen Philosophicum (...). Amsterdam, 1703. [-387], 483, (2) p. de tables.‎

‎ Ensemble relié en 2 volumes in-12 (140 x 78 mm), plein maroquin vert sapin, dos à 5 nerfs guillochés or, garnis de compartiments entièrement dorés à la fanfare, large roulette d'encadrement sur les plats garnie de fleurons aux coins, roulette sur les coupes, titre doré, dorés sur tranches, gardes de tabis rose (reliure de l'époque). ‎

‎Exceptionnel exemplaire relié en maroquin de l'époque, réunion en deux volumes de l'ensemble de la production contemporaine française de / et autour de Spinoza.1- Première édition française du "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus", augmentée des additions apportées par Spinoza à son texte ("Remarques curieuses") publiées ici pour la première fois. Le traducteur, Gabriel de Saint-Glain, calviniste français réfugié en Hollande, devint un fervent spinoziste après sa rencontre avec un élève du philosophe. Rigoureusement interdite et poursuivie en France, cette édition fut présentée sous pages de titre et adresses différentes afin de détourner la censure.La traduction de Saint-Glain, "avec des éclaircissements et un commentaire inestimable", contribua directement à la diffusion du spinozisme en Europe (cf. Vernière, I, p. 25 sq., qui signale que Saint-Glain effectua sa traduction sur un exemplaire annoté de la main de Spinoza). (Kingma & Offenberg, n° 13, 14 et 15. "Catalogue du tricentenaire, Institut hollandais", p. 59. Van der Linde, n° 10, 11 et 12. Sauvy, 'Livres saisis à Paris', n°204 et 568).2 et 3- Edition originale de ce recueil collectif consacré à Spinoza et à sa doctrine, édité par Nicolas Lenglet du Fresnoy.Il contient la "Vie de Spinoza" (p. 1 à 150) par Jean Colerus (Johann Koehler), pasteur luthérien à La Haye -- La préface et la "Réfutation" de Spinoza par le comte de Boulainvilliers ainsi que celle de Fénelon (p. 151 à 320) "Extrait du nouvel athéisme renversé" oeuvre du cartésien François Lamy (p. 321 à 386) sous page de titre particulière à la date de 1696 "Certamen Philosophicum" (...) dIsaac Orobion médecin et personnalité de la communauté juive dAmsterdam (p. 387 à 483), également sous page de titre particulière, à la date de 1703."Sous prétexte de rendre plus facile la réfutation de Spinoza en mettant ses opinions à la portée de tout le monde, Boulainvilliers a eu réellement pour but de propager le système de ce philosophe (...) en substituant au langage austère du métaphysicien hollandais une forme simple et pleine dattraits" (Franck, p. 202). Sur limportance décisive de ce recueil dans la propagation du spinozisme en France, cf. P. Vernière, Spinoza et la pensée française, p. 373 sq.(Brunet, II, 1209. Fürst, III, p. 54. Cat. Expo. Spinoza, Herzog August Bibliothek, n° 64. Tchemerzine-Scheler, III, 232. Van der Linde, 107 et 108).Ex-libris armorié du Dr Armand Ripault à sa devise "D'espérer servir".Très bel exemplaire, exceptionnelle réunion en reliure de maroquin de l'époque orné à la fanfare. ‎

‎Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn. - [INITIATING THE PANTHEISMUSSTREIT - PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎Breslau, Löwe, 1785. 8vo. Nice contemporary half calf with five raised bands, gilt lines, and gilt title-label to spine. A bit of wear to extremities. Internally very nice and clean. Printed on good paper. A stamp to title-page (Holsteinborg). Inscribed by the author on front free end-paper. (8)215, (1, - errata) pp.‎

‎A magnificent presentation-copy of the rare first edition, first issue (with the ""S. das Gedicht am Ende des Briefes""-note on p. 11) of this milestone of 18th century thought, one of the most scandalous books of its time, the work that reintroduced Spinoza to a society otherwise dominated by French Enlightenment thinking, and the work that begain the famous ""Pantheismusstreit"", one of the most important feuds in German philosophy. Presentation-copies by Jacobi are of the utmost scarcity and hardly ever come on the market. The present copy bears a two-line inscription to the famous physician Philipp Hensler, signed ""The Author"", on the front free end-paper: ""Seinem verehrtesten Gönner und lieben/ Freunde, dem Herrn Hensler in Altona/ Der Verfasser"". The city of Altona plays a significant role in late 18th century German thought, as many of the most important thinkers of the period pass through there. In the late 18th century, Altona developed into the centre of Enlightenment in Northern Germany. It is here that Jacobi meets Hensel, who comes to play an important role in his life, as is also evident from the present inscription (""honoured benefactor and dear friend""). Philipp Gabriel Hensler (1733-1805) was a famous German doctor, an outstanding physician, who is still famous today for his pioneering work in hygiene statistics and in pox-inoculation. He was so famous in his time that for a time he was the preferred choice for the position of private doctor to the Danish King Christian VII, right up until that historical moment when Struensee was chosen instead. When Struensee was given the position, Hensler was given Struensee's old position as physician in Altona. With the first edition of ""Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza"" (1785), Jacobi begins the famous ""PATHEISMUSSTREIT"", which focused attention on the apparent conflict between human freedom and any systematic, philosophical interpretation of reality. In 1780, Jacobi (1743-1819), famous for coining the term nihilism, advocating ""belief"" and ""revelation"" instead of speculative reason, thereby anticipating much of present-day literature, and for his critique of the Sturm-und-Drang-era, had a conversation with Lessing, in which Lessing stated that the only true philosophy was Spinozism. This led Jacobi to a protracted and serious study of Spinoza's works. After Lessing's death, in 1783 Jacobi began a lengthy letter-correspondende with Mendelssohn, a close friend of Lessing, on the philosophy of Spinoza. These letters, with commentaries by Jacobi, are what constitute the first edition of ""Ueber die lehre des Spinoza"". The work caused great furor and the enmity of the Enlightenment thinkers. Jacobi was ridiculed by his contemporaries for attempting to reintroduce into philosophy belief instead of reason, was seen as an enemy of reason and Enlightenment, as a pietist, and as a Jesuit. But the publication of the work not only caused great furor in wider philosophical circles, there was also a personal side to the scandal which has made it one of the most debated books of the period: ""Mendelssohn enjoyed, as noted at the outset, a lifelong friendship with G. E. Lessing... Along with Mendelssohn, Lessing embraced the idea of a purely rational religion and would endorse Mendelssohn's declaration: ""My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means"" and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths"" (Gesammelte Schriften, Volume 3/2, p. 205). To pietists of the day, such declarations were scandalous subterfuges of an Enlightenment project of assimilating religion to natural reason... While Mendelssohn skillfully avoided that confrontation, he found himself reluctantly unable to remain silent when, after Lessing's death, F. H. Jacobi contended that Lessing embraced Spinoza's pantheism and thus exemplified the Enlightenment's supposedly inevitable descent into irreligion.Following private correspondence with Jacobi on the issue and an extended period when Jacobi (in personal straits at the time) did not respond to his objections, Mendelssohn attempted to set the record straight about Lessing's Spinozism in ""Morning Hours"". Learning of Mendelssohn's plans incensed Jacobi who expected to be consulted first and who accordingly responded by publishing, without Mendelssohn's consent, their correspondence - ""On the Teaching of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn"" - a month before the publication of ""Morning Hours"". Distressed on personal as well as intellectual levels by the controversy over his departed friend's pantheism, Mendelssohn countered with a hastily composed piece, ""To the Friends of Lessing: an Appendix to Mr. Jacobi's Correspondence on the Teaching of Spinoza"". According to legend, so anxious was Mendelssohn to get the manuscript to the publisher that, forgetting his overcoat on a bitterly cold New Year's eve, he delivered the manuscript on foot to the publisher. That night he came down with a cold from which he died four days later, prompting his friends to charge Jacobi with responsibility for Mendelssohn's death.The sensationalist character of the controversy should not obscure the substance and importance of Mendelssohn's debate with Jacobi. Jacobi had contended that Spinozism is the only consistent position for a metaphysics based upon reason alone and that the only solution to this metaphysics so detrimental to religion and morality is a leap of faith, that salto mortale that poor Lessing famously refused to make. Mendelssohn counters Jacobi's first contention by attempting to demonstrate the metaphysical inconsistency of Spinozism. He takes aim at Jacobi's second contention by demonstrating how the ""purified Spinozism"" or ""refined pantheism"" embraced by Lessing is, in the end, only nominally different from theism and thus a threat neither to religion nor to morality."" (SEP).The first unpaginated leaves contain the first printings of two of Goethe's famous poems: ""Das Göttliche"" and ""Prometheus""(Hagen 577). ‎