About the series

Benedict de Spinoza is perhaps the most widely discussed seventeenth-century philosopher today, attracting the interest of a surprisingly wide range of disciplines. This Cambridge Elements series provides concise, innovative, and insightful introductions to central and under-explored topics in Spinoza’s philosophy. 

This series will deepen our understanding of the fundamentals of Spinoza’s thinking, examine his relationship to other thinkers, introduce readers to fresh issues, and feature diverse scholarly perspectives. 

Some volumes in the series will provide a broad view of major aspects of Spinoza’s philosophy that have already drawn substantial attention from scholars and readers over the past three and a half centuries. Other volumes will chart new research agendas, addressing significant features of Spinoza’s thought that have escaped the attention of past generations of readers. 

All volumes will be authored by premier scholars in the field. Readers need not have prior knowledge to benefit from these texts in this series. The works will be written in a style accessible to a wide readership while exercising scholarly and philosophical precision.