Publication Information : Book Title : Spinoza : A Collection of Critical Essays. Contributors : Marjorie Grene – editor. Publisher : Anchor Books. Place of Publication : Garden City, NY. Publication Year : 1973.
INTRODUCTION
In his British Academy lecture, which opens Part Three of this collection, Stuart Hampshire remarks of traditional interpretations of Spinoza :
‘All these masks have been fitted on him and each of them does to some extent fit. But they remain masks, and not the living face. They do not show the moving tensions and unresolved conflicts in Spinoza ‘s Ethics.’