Experience and Eternity in Spinoza

Pierre-François Moreau is Professor of Philosophy at L’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He is a world-renowned specialist in Spinoza. He is the author of Spinoza: L’expérience et l’éternité (1994), Spinoza: Etat et religion (2005) and Problèmes du spinozisme (2006), along with numerous other books and articles on Spinoza, Greek philosophy, early modern philosophy, the history of humanism and the methodology of the history of philosophy. Robert Boncardo is Sessional Tutor in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. He completed his doctorate in French Studies at the University of Sydney and Aix-Marseille Université.

• Abbreviations; Translator’s Introduction: Can’t Stop the Feeling (of Being Eternal); Introduction; Part I: Certitudo, The Journey of Philosophy; 1. The Status of the Prologue; 2. The Stages of Certainty; 3. Common Life and Perishable Gods; 4. The True Good; 5. The ‘Animus’ and Love; 6. The Circles of Experience; Part II; 7. Determinations and Limits of Experience; 8. Fields of Experience: Language; 9. Fields of Experience: The Passions; 10. Fields of Experience: History; Part III: A Metaphysical Experience?; 11. An Experience of Forms? 12. The Soul and the Body; 13. The Experience of Eternity; Conclusion: The Constitution of Spinoza’s System; An Infinite Internal to the Finite: An Interview with Pierre-François Moreau on Experience and Eternity in Spinoza.

Experience and Eternity is a masterwork. Pierre-François Moreau illuminates the fields of Experience in Spinoza: language, passions, history and eternity. He offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between Experience and Reason. No scholar working in the area of empiricism study can afford to ignore this extremely instructive book.