Van Bunge, Wiep. “The Absurdity of Spinozism: Spinoza and His First Dutch Critics.” Intellectual News 2, no. 1 (1997): 18–26. doi:10.1080/15615324.1997.10429233.

Abstract:

“Over the last thirty years, few early-modem philosophers have been studied as closely as the seventeenth-century Dutchman Baruch, or Benedict de, Spinoza (1631–1677). At the close of the 1960s, a number of important studies appeared which heralded a truly international renaissance of Spinoza scholarship. After several decades, in which both Anglo-Saxon and Continental philosophy had been dominated by logical positivism, phenomenology, and existentialism, none of which inspired much interest in the works of Spinoza, Gilles Deleuze published Spinoza et Ie probteme de l’expression (1968), Edwin Curley Spinoza’s metaphysics (1969), and, most importantly, Martial Gueroult and Alexandre Matheron set a new standard for the study ofSpinoza’s Ethics.Together with their colleague Sylvain Zac, they turned Paris into the international capital of Spinoza research. Z More and more historians of philosophy became involved in what today has evolved into an academic industry producing dozens of books and hundreds of articles every year. This spring, the eleventh volume of Studia Spinozana (1995) will be making its appearance, ³ and a new edition of Spinoza’ works, prepared by a team of scholars from the N etherlands, France, and Italy, is under way.^4″

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