Beth Lord is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze (2011) and Spinoza’s Ethics: an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (2010), and editor of Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (2012) and the Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy (2009).

• Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. A Guide to the Text; Part I: Being, Substance, God, Nature; Part II: Minds, Bodies, Experience, and Knowledge; Part III: The Affects; Part IV: Virtue, Ethics, and Politics; Part V: Freedom and Eternity; 2. Study Aids; Glossary; Further Reading; Types of Question You Will Encounter; Tips for Writing about Spinoza; Bibliography; Index.

In this engaging and unpretentious introduction Beth Lord guides the beginning student through the maze of propositions and axioms of Spinoza's Ethics with unflagging patience and encouragement. Teachers and students alike should welcome this new addition to Spinoza studies. -- Professor Moira Gatens, University of Sydney, Australia In this engaging and unpretentious introduction Beth Lord guides the beginning student through the maze of propositions and axioms of Spinoza's Ethics with unflagging patience and encouragement. Teachers and students alike should welcome this new addition to Spinoza studies.