Collective Spinoza: the double writing of the Preface to Opera Posthuma
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This article studies Spinozism as a collective philosophy, based on a comparison between the two versions of the preface to Spinoza’s Opera Posthuma (1677). After a discussion on the attribution of the Dutch version to Jarig Jellesz (1619 or 1620 - 1683) and of the Latin version to Lodewijk Meyer (1629 - 1681), it shows that the small differences between the two texts testify to the problematic tensions in the field of ontology and the relationship to religion, and help thinking Spinozism as the philosophy of a group - in this case, Jellesz, Spinoza, Meyer - and to understand the interpersonal relationship as the subject of the production of ideas.
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Original in French.
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