Youpa's book is the culmination of twenty years of research on Spinoza's ethics, which until now has been available only in articles. It is a must read for anyone interested in the subject... It makes an indispensable contribution to the growing literature on the subject, and it charts a path for future research by raising important new topics and questions.
Andrew Youpa is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has published articles on aspects of the moral theories of Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and is co-editor of Essays on Spinoza's Ethical Theory (Oxford University Press, 2014).