{"product_id":"spinozas-labyrinths-essays-on-his-metaphysics-hardcover-1","title":"Spinoza's Labyrinths: Essays on His Metaphysics - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYitzhak Y. Melamed\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpinoza scholarship today resembles a proliferating forest, diversifying and developing every day. \u003cem\u003eSpinoza's Labyrinths\u003c\/em\u003e invites the reader to explore some recently charted paths in these woods, whilst also forging some new trails. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume collects essays by Yitzhak Melamed on Spinoza's metaphysics, some of which are new but most of which were published over the last decade and a half. The common methodological attitude that most, if not all, of these studies reflect is the commitment to a bottom-up reconstruction of Spinoza's philosophy, where Spinoza's text is both the point of departure and the constant touchstone against which any interpretation must be evaluated. Across four key parts, Melamed traces diachronically the development of key concepts of Spinoza's metaphysics, discusses key problems at the core of his metaphysics, examines the connection between Spinoza's substance monism and the philosophy of the ancient Eleatics, and conducts a historical study of Spinoza's debt to the Kabbalah.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eYitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern Philosophy, German Idealism, Medieval Philosophy, and some issues in contemporary metaphysics, and is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (Oxford 2013), and Spinoza's Labyrinths (Oxford, forthcoming). Currently, he is working on the completion of two books on Spinoza and German Idealism, and on Spinoza's Anti-Humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 286\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.81 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 09, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45853188325573,"sku":"9780197660133","price":193.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/zZBZom2kiw9780197660133_c2dd2502-ee4d-40db-a43a-9e7b8dcb5557.webp?v=1771460116","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/spinozas-labyrinths-essays-on-his-metaphysics-hardcover-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}