I have so, so many questions about the decision-making process for choosing a cover for this book. Why is this lady posing with a sexy hat? Why is she wearing a leotard and standing in the middle of a mansion? Why does she look like she just murdered someone? And most of all, what does any of this have to do with seventeenth century Spinozist epistemology/how is this cover fitting for a book that begins with the sentence “After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness”?
(the real and boring answer is that this translation is in the public domain, so publishers try to trick you out of easy money by cheaply packaging it, but this still seems hilarious/particularly ineptly done)