Spinoza Past and Present: Essays on Spinoza, Spinozism, and Spinoza Scholarship"Spinoza Past and Present" consists of twelve essays on Benedictus de Spinoza s Jewish background, his views on metaphysics, mathematics, religion and society. Special attention is paid to the various ways in which Spinoza s works have been interpreted from the late seventeenth century to the present day. In particular, Spinoza s recent popularity among advocates of the Radical Enlightenment is discussed: Van Bunge proposes a new interpretation of Spinoza s role in the early Dutch Enlightenment. |
Contents
Chapter One Baruch or Benedict? Spinoza as a Marrano | 1 |
Chapter Two The Autonomy of the Attributes | 17 |
Chapter Three The Idea of a Scientific Moral Philosophy | 35 |
Chapter Four Spinoza and the Collegiants | 51 |
Chapter Five The Idea of Religious Imposture | 67 |
Chapter Six The Politics of the Passions | 87 |
Chapter Seven Causation and Intelligibility in the Tractatus TheologicoPoliticus | 101 |
Chapter Eight Vondels Noah on God and Nature | 119 |
Chapter Nine Censorship of Philosophy in the SeventeenthCentury Dutch Republic | 137 |
Chapter Ten Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Dutch Spinozism | 157 |
A Dutch Perspective | 189 |
Chapter Twelve Spinoza Past and Present | 211 |
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