• ISBN13: 9780521039505
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: History
• Publisher: Cambridge UP
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2008
• Pages: 256
• Original Price: USD 47.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 382 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): History & Surveys / Modern

Readers of Spinoza's philosophy have often been discouraged, as well as fascinated, by the geometrical method which he employs in his masterpiece Ethics. Aaron Garrett examines this method and suggests that Spinoza intended not only to make claims and propositions but also to transform readers by enabling them to view themselves and the world in a different way. This original and controversial book will be of interest to historians of philosophy.

Garrett, Aaron V.: - Aaron Garrett is Assistant Professor at Boston University. He has contributed to a number of publications and is the editor of Francis Hutcheson, An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (2002) and Animal Rights and Souls in the Eighteenth Century (2000).