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Title

Spinoza's 'theological-political treatise' : a critical guide / edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Michael A. Rosenthal.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Additional Authors

• Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 1968-
• Rosenthal, Michael A., 1962-

Description

xiv, 294 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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 republic. Spinoza criticizes the traditional claims of revelation and offers a social contract theory in which he praises democracy as the most natural form of government. This new Critical Guide presents new essays by well-known scholars in the field and covers a broad range of topics, including the political theory and the metaphysics of the work, religious toleration, the reception of the text by other early modern philosophers, and the relation of the text to Jewish thought. It offers valuable new perspectives on this important and influential work"--

Series Statement

Cambridge critical guides

Uniform Title

Cambridge critical guides.

Subjects

• Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 > Tractatus theologico-politicus
• Philosophy and religion > History > 17th century
• Free thought > History > 17th century

Genre/Form

• History.
• Informational works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

B3985.Z7

ISBN

• 9780521882293
• 052188229X

LCCN

• 2010033073
• 40018905463
• 99945602436

OCLC

610831399

Title

Spinoza's 'theological-political treatise' : a critical guide / edited by Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Michael A. Rosenthal.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge critical guides

Cambridge critical guides.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Added Author

Melamed, Yitzhak Y., 1968- editor.

Rosenthal, Michael A., 1962- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40018905463

99945602436

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR B3985.Z7 S65 2010

JFE 11-1444