Correspondence
Letters
Epistolae
Philosophical correspondence with Henry Oldenburg, Robert Boyle, Christiaan Huygens, Johannes Hudde, Willem van Blijenbergh, Lodewijk Meyer, Simon de Vries, Jarig Jelles, Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, Leibniz, Albert Burgh, Nicolas Steno and Hugo Boxel, among others. It deals with the infinite, the attributes of God, evil, freedom, ghosts, the vacuum and optics, and contains some of his most precise formulations: all determination is negation, the critique of freedom as ignorance of causes, the refusal of the Heidelberg chair, the harsh reply to the convert Burgh.
Authorship note
Eighty-eight surviving letters (fifty by Spinoza and thirty-eight by his correspondents; fifty-two in Latin and twenty-six in Dutch), from 1661 to 1676. A selection was published in the Opera posthuma (1677), from which the editors removed personal matters; others have been found since.
Editions and translations
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English
Baruch Spinoza
Correspondence of Benedict de Spinoza
The Conscious LibraryCorrespondence of Benedict de Spinoza
Frank Cass, 1966
Translation: A. Wolf
ISBN 9780714615738
Baruch Spinoza
The Correspondence of Spinoza
The Conscious LibraryThe Correspondence of Spinoza
George Allen & Unwin, Londres, 1928
Translation: A. Wolf
Latín
Baruch Spinoza
Epistolae doctorum quorundam virorum ad B. d. S. et auctoris responsiones, en Opera posthuma
The Conscious LibraryEpistolae doctorum quorundam virorum ad B. d. S. et auctoris responsiones, en Opera posthuma
Jan Rieuwertsz, Ámsterdam, 1677
Français
Baruch Spinoza
Lettres (Œuvres de Spinoza, t. III, cartas I-XXXIX)
The Conscious LibraryLettres (Œuvres de Spinoza, t. III, cartas I-XXXIX)
Charpentier, París, 1861
Translation: Émile Saisset
Dominio público; en Wikisource.
Deutsch
Español
Baruch Spinoza
Correspondencia completa
The Conscious Library
Other works by Baruch Spinoza
- Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometrical Order · 1677
- Theological-Political Treatise · 1670
- Political Treatise · 1677
- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect · 1677
- Short Treatise on God, Man and His Well-Being · 1660
- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy · 1663
- Metaphysical Thoughts · 1663
- Compendium of Hebrew Grammar · 1677
- Posthumous Works · 1677
- Apology for leaving the synagogue (lost) · 1656
- Treatise on the Rainbow (lost) · 1676
- Dutch translation of the Old Testament (lost) · 1677
- Algebraic Calculation of the Rainbow (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Calculation of Chances (doubtful attribution) · 1687
- Treatise of the Three Impostors (spurious) · 1719
- Johannes Colerus' Life of Spinoza · 1705
- Spinoza: A Life (biography by Steven Nadler) · 1999
- The Collected Works of Spinoza (ed. Edwin Curley) · 1985
- Spinoza: Complete Works (trans. Samuel Shirley) · 2002
- Spinoza Opera (ed. Carl Gebhardt) · 1925
- Opere (ed. Filippo Mignini) · 2007
Sources
- Wikipedia (en), «Epistolae (Spinoza)» y «List of Epistolae (Letters) of Spinoza» (88 cartas: 50 de Spinoza, 38 de sus corresponsales).
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