Spinoza's 'theological-political treatise' a critical guide
Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was published anonymously in 1670 and immediately provoked huge debate. Its main goal was to claim that the freedom of philosophizing can be allowed in a free republic and that it cannot be abolished without also destroying the peace and piety of that re...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2010
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| Series: | Cambridge critical guides
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Table of Contents:
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction / Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Michael Rosenthal
- Spinoza's exchange with Albert Burgh / Edwin Curley
- The text of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus / Piet Steenbakkers
- Spinoza on Ibn Ezra's Secret of the Twelve Warren / Zev Harvey
- Reflections of the medieval Jewish-Christian debate in the Theological-Political Treatise and the Epistles /Daniel J. Lasker
- The early Dutch and German reaction to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: foreshadowing the Enlightenment's more general Spinoza reception? / Jonathan Israel
- G.W. Leibniz's two readings of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus / Mogens Laerke
- The metaphysics of the Theological-Political Treatise / Yitzhak Y. Melamed
- Spinoza's conception of law: metaphysics and ethics / Donald Rutherford
- Getting his hands dirty: Spinoza's criticism of the rebel / Michael Della Rocca
- 'Promising' ideas: Hobbes and contract in Spinoza's political philosophy / Don Garrett
- Spinoza's curious defense of toleration / Justin Steinberg
- Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise / Michael A. Rosenthal
- Narrative as the means to freedom: Spinoza on the uses of imagination / Susan James
- Bibliography
- Index