Desire and affect
Subtitle: Spinoza as psychologist ; papers presented at the third Jerusalem conference (Ethica III)
By: edited by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Contributors: Yovel, Yirmiahu; Mekhon Shpinozah bi-Yerushalayim; Universiṭah ha ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim
Series: Spinoza by 2000 -- v. 3
Publisher: Little Room Press; Distributed by Fordham University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677. -- Congresses; Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677 -- Contributions in psychology; Affect (Psychology) -- Congresses; Emotions (Philosophy) -- Congresses
Other titles: Spinoza as psychologist
Description: "The present book is meant to express the diversity of interpretation of Spinoza's theory and to examine critically the relevance of Spinoza's ideas to contemporary issues and debates (in philosophy, psychology, and even economics). Donald Davidson's essay, which offers a "Davidsonian" version of Spinoza's view of the affects and the mind-body relation, provides one such contemporary interpretation.

The book also contains other attempts to reinterpret Spinoza in light of later problems and insights."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Sponsored by the Jersusalem Spinoza Institute ; The Spinoza Research Program, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Includes bibliographical references and index