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Edwin Curley

Disciplines:
ancient philosophy/early modern philosophy

Summary

American philosopher who produced the standard scholarly translation of Spinoza's Ethics and other works, and has written on Descartes and Hobbes.

Core Contribution

The Collected Works of Spinoza (Princeton): the authoritative scholarly translation with annotation. Behind the Geometrical Method: a reading of Spinoza's Ethics that makes the geometric presentation philosophically perspicuous.

Notable Works & Achievements

Behind the Geometrical Method

The Collected Works of Spinoza

Historical Influences

Baruch Spinoza René Descartes

Intellectual Lineage

Early Modern Philosophy Scholarship

Contemporaries & Peers

Steven Nadler Don Garrett

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

Spinoza Scholarship

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