Download or read book Reason and the Passions in the 'Comedias' of Calderón written by David Jonathan Hildner and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction In 1675, six years before the death of Calderon, Benedict de Spinoza began to circulate cautiously among his friends and colleagues in the Netherlands the manuscripts of what was to be published posthumously as the Ethics.