Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Spinoza's exchange with Albert Burgh
- 2 The text of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 3 Spinoza on Ibn Ezra's “secret of the twelve”
- 4 Reflections of the medieval Jewish–Christian debate in the Theological-Political Treatise and the Epistles
- 5 The early Dutch and German reaction to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: foreshadowing the Enlightenment's more general Spinoza reception?
- 6 G. W. Leibniz's two readings of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 7 The metaphysics of the Theological-Political Treatise
- 8 Spinoza's conception of law: metaphysics and ethics
- 9 Getting his hands dirty: Spinoza's criticism of the rebel
- 10 “Promising” ideas: Hobbes and contract in Spinoza's political philosophy
- 11 Spinoza's curious defense of toleration
- 12 Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
- 13 Narrative as the means to Freedom: Spinoza on the uses of imagination
- Bibliography
- Index
Acknowledgments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Spinoza's exchange with Albert Burgh
- 2 The text of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 3 Spinoza on Ibn Ezra's “secret of the twelve”
- 4 Reflections of the medieval Jewish–Christian debate in the Theological-Political Treatise and the Epistles
- 5 The early Dutch and German reaction to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: foreshadowing the Enlightenment's more general Spinoza reception?
- 6 G. W. Leibniz's two readings of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 7 The metaphysics of the Theological-Political Treatise
- 8 Spinoza's conception of law: metaphysics and ethics
- 9 Getting his hands dirty: Spinoza's criticism of the rebel
- 10 “Promising” ideas: Hobbes and contract in Spinoza's political philosophy
- 11 Spinoza's curious defense of toleration
- 12 Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
- 13 Narrative as the means to Freedom: Spinoza on the uses of imagination
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise'A Critical Guide, pp. xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010