Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe Studies on the Traité des Trois Imposteurs
'the oldest biography of Spinoza', La Vie de Mr. Spinosa, which in the manuscript copies is often followed by L'Esprit de M. Spinosa. Margaret Jacob, in her Radical Enlightenment, contended that the Traite was written by a radical group of Freemasons in The Hague in the early eighteen...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Table of Contents:
- I. History and Interpretation of the ‘Traité des Trois Imposteurs’
- 1. L’Esprit de Spinosa: ses origines et sa première édition dans leur contexte spinozien
- 2. Une Histoire interminable: origines et développement du Traité des trois imposteurs
- 3. History and structure of our Traité des trois imposteurs
- 4. L’Esprit de Spinosa et les Traités des trois imposteurs: rappel des différentes familles et de leurs principales caractéristiques
- II. Around the ‘Traité’
- 5. Freethinking in early-eighteenth-century Protestant Germany: Peter Friedrich Arpe and the Traité des trois imposteurs
- 6. The English Deists and the Traité
- 7. Sallengre, La Monnoye, and the Traité des trois imposteurs
- 8. The politics of a publishing event: the Marchand milieu and The life and spirit of Spinoza of 1719
- 9. Impostors and Revolution: on the ‘Philadelphie’ 1796 edition of the Traité des trois imposteurs
- III. The Threads of a Tradition
- 10. An eighteenth-century interpretation of the Ethica: Henry de Boulainvilliers’s ‘Essai de métaphysique’
- 11. Legislators, impostors, and the politic origins of religion: English theories of ‘imposture’ from Stubbe to Toland
- 12. ‘Behold the fear of the Lord’: the Erastianism of Stillingfleet, Wolseley, and Tillotson
- 13. ‘Jesus Nazarenus legislator’: Adam Boreel’s defence of Christianity
- 14. Johan Adler Salvius’ Questions to Baruch de Castro concerning De tribus impostoribus
- 15. The struggle against unbelief in the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam after Spinoza’s excommunication
- 16. Worse than the three impostors? towards an interpretation of Theodor Ludwig Lau’s Meditationes philosophicae de Deo, mundo, homine