Jeroen M.M. van de Ven: Printing Spinoza
A Descriptive Bibliography of the Works Published in the Seventeenth Century Series: Library of the Written Word, Volume: 100 Library of the Written Word – The Handpress World, Volume: 100 Author: Jeroen M.M. van de Ven In Printing Spinoza Jeroen van de Ven systematically examines all seventeenth-century printed editions of Spinoza’s writings, published between 1663 and 1694, as well as their variant ‘issues’. In focus are Spinoza’s 1663 adumbration of René Descartes’s ‘Principles of Philosophy’ with his own ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theological-Political Treatise’ (1670), and the posthumous writings (1677), including the famously-known ‘Ethics’. Van de Ven’s descriptive bibliography studies, contextualizes, and records all…