Het nieuwe boek van Michael LeBuffe - Spinoza on Reason - is uit

Op het blog van 6 september 2017, waarin ik meldde dat naar verwachting 30 november een nieuw boek van Michael LeBuffe zou verschijnen

Michael LeBuffe, Spinoza on Reason. Oxford University Press, 2018 [2017] - 256 pp.

heeft de auteur gisterenavond laten weten: “I am reading! Thanks for noting my book. Best, Mike”.

Daar blogspot geen ‘laatste reacties’ laat zien, vind ik het wel aardig dit te melden. Bij de uitgever is te zien dat het boek op 2 november verschenen is. Bij bookdepository blijkt de prijs omlaag gebracht naar €51,82
De uitgever schrijft:

In his work on metaphysics, Spinoza associates reasons with causes or explanations. He contends that there is a reason for whatever exists and whatever does not exist. In his account of the human mind, Spinoza makes reason a peculiarly powerful kind of idea and the only source of our knowledge of objects in experience. In his moral theory, Spinoza introduces dictates of reason, which are action-guiding prescriptions. In politics, Spinoza suggests that reason, with religion, motivates cooperation in society. Reason shapes Spinoza's philosophy, and central debates about Spinoza-including his place in the history of philosophy and in the European Enlightenment-turn upon our understanding of these claims. Spinoza on Reason starts with striking claims in each of these areas, which Michael LeBuffe draws from Spinoza's two great works, the Ethics and the Theological Political Treatise. The book takes each characterization of reason on its own terms, explaining the claims and their historical context. While acknowledging the striking variety of reason's roles, LeBuffe emphasizes the extent to which these different doctrines build upon one another. The result is a rich understanding of the meaning and function of each claim and, in the book's conclusion, an overview of the contribution of reason to the systematic coherence of Spinoza's philosophy