Nog meer Spinozaboeken zijn in aantocht

Alvast maar weer gesignaleerd: deze maand zou verschijnen (maar is er nog niet):

Beth Lord (Ed.), Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio. Edinburgh University Press, March 2018 [maar volgens bookdepository 31 May 2018] -- 192 pages

The first major work to explore ratio as a key concept of Spinoza’s thought - Reveals that ratio is a multi-faceted concept that connects geometry, minds, reason, bodies, social relations and the cosmos in Spinoza’s philosophy - Shows how ratio can be used to address enduring questions in Spinoza's thought and take his philosophy in exciting new directions Offers new applications of Spinoza's thinking to architecture, design and urban studies

Table of Contents

Introduction, Beth Lord
1. Spinoza’s Ontology Geometrically Illustrated: A Reading of Ethics IIP8SM, Valtteri Viljanen
2. Reason and Body in Spinoza’s Metaphysics, Michael LeBuffe
3. Ratio and Activity: Spinoza's Biologizing of the Mind in an Aristotelian Key, Heidi M. Ravven
4. Harmony in Spinoza and His Critics, Timothy Yenter
5. Ratio as the basis of Spinoza’s concept of equality, Beth Lord
6. Proportion as a barometer of the affective life in Spinoza, Simon B. Duffy
7. Spinoza, Heterarchical Ontology and Affective Architecture, Gökhan Kodalak
8. Dissimilarity: Spinoza's ethical ratios and housing welfare, Peg Rawes
9. The greater part: How intuition forms better worlds, Stefan White
10. Slownesses and Speeds, Latitudes and Longitudes: In the Vicinity of Beatitude, Hélène Frichot
11. The Eyes of the Mind: Proportion in Spinoza, Swift, Ibn Tufayl, Anthony Uhlmann
Bibliography.

Toevoeging 9 sept. 2018
Books.google laat het niet inzien, maar geeft nog wel deze typering: "These essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of this unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought"

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Ik heb er al eerder op gewezen [cf. blog van 28 nov. 2017], maar nu is er ook een cover – de titel en ondertitel blijken van plaats te zijn verwisseld:

Chantal Jaquet, Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza. The Unity of Body and Mind. Translated by Tatiana Reznichenko. Edinburgh University Press, March 2018 [volgens bookdepository verschijnt de hardback 30 juni 2018 - de paperback 28 febr. 2020] - 184 pages

A new analysis of the mind/body relationship based on the philosophy of Spinoza.
It is widely recognised that Spinoza put an end to the Cartesian dualism of body and mind by thinking through the possibility of their unity. Revisiting this generally accepted notion of psychophysical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through the affects that bring together a body's affection and the idea of this affection.
Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, Jaquet reveals that understanding affects, actions and passions provides the key to how the mind and body are the same individual expressed in two different ways. She presents the Spinozist model in all its complexity, illuminating its potentialities for contemporary debates on the nature of the mind-body problem.

Key Features
•Critiques the false conception of psychophysical parallelism in Spinoza
•Gives us a new analysis of the mind/body relationshi
•Contrasts Descartes’ conception of the passions with Spinoza’s conception of the affect
•Defines Spinozian affects and their variations in a new way

TOC
Introduction
1. The Nature of the Union of Mind and Body in Spinoza
2. Spinoza's Break with Descartes Regarding the Affects in Ethics III3. The Different Origins of the Affects in the Preface to the Theological-Political Treatise and in the Ethics
4. The Definition of Affect in Ethics III
5. Variations of the Mixed Discourse
Conclusion
Bibliography.

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Ook heb ik er al eerder op gewezen, maar nu is er ook een cover van

Ursula Renz, The Explainability of Experience. Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind. Oxford Unversity Press, 02 July 2018.

Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Explainability of Experience

Part I: The Basic Framework: The Ethics' Systematic Premises
Chapter 1: Dissociating the Concept of Substance from the Concept of Subject
Chapter 2: The Conception of Metaphysics in de Deo and its Implications
Chapter 3: The Concept of the Individual and its Scope

Part II: The Ontology of the Mental: On the Relationship between Being and Thought
Chapter 4: The Primacy of the Metaphysics over the Theory of the Min
Chapter 5: The Concept of idea and Its Logic
Chapter 6: The Justification of a Realist Rationalism
Chapter 7: Body and Mind: What Spinoza's Theory of Identity Seeks to Achieve

Part III: Theory of the Subject: The Concept of the Human Mind and Its Premises
Chapter 8: The Problem of the Numerical Difference Between Subjects
Chapter 9: Finitude, or the Limited Knowability of Finite Things
Chapter 10: The Definition of the Human Mind in Its Derivation
Chapter 11: Panpsychism, or the Question "What is the Subject of Experience?

Part IV: Psychology and Epistemology: The Constitution, Experiential Quality, and Epistemic Value of Content
Chapter 12: The Constitution of Mental Content in the imaginatio
Chapter 13: Emotions, or How to Explain Qualities of Experience
Chapter 14: Epistemology: The Possibility of Producing Successful Explanations

Conclusion: Successful Explanation of Experience and Practical Philosophy
Bibliography
Index of Persons
Index of Concepts
Index of References to the Ethics