A book, a pencil,
an open question.

The edition used in the podcast

A Spinoza Reader

The Ethics and Other Works · Edited and translated by Edwin Curley

The hosts read from this Princeton University Press anthology. It includes the Ethics and selections from Spinoza’s other writings. Follow the paragraph numbers listed with each episode; page numbers vary between editions.

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Further reading · Host’s work

Spinoza’s Religion

A New Reading of the Ethics · Clare Carlisle

Carlisle’s study of the Ethics explores its religious dimensions. Her university profile also lists her edition of George Eliot’s translation and related research on Spinoza.