Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide

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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 Critical Guide presents 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 perspectives on this important and influential work.

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G. W. Leibniz's two readings of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.Mogens Laerke
Getting his hands dirty: Spinoza's criticism of the rebel.Michael Della Rocca
Introduction.Yitzhak Y. Melamed & Michael Rosenthal
Spinoza on Ibn Ezra's Secret of the Twelve Warren.Zev Harvey
Spinoza's conception of law: metaphysics and ethics.Donald Rutherford
Spinoza's curious defense of toleration.Justin Steinberg
The Metaphysics of Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise.Yitzhak Y. Melamed
The early Dutch and German reaction to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: foreshadowing the Enlightenment's more general Spinoza reception?Jonathan Israel
The metaphysics of the Theological-Political Treatise.Yitzhak Y. Melamed
Spinoza's exchange with Albert Burgh.  (pages 11)Edwin Curley
The text of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.  (pages 29)Piet Steenbakkers
Reflections of the medieval Jewish–Christian debate in the Theological-Political Treatise and the Epistles.  (pages 56)Daniel J. Lasker
GW Leibniz's two readings of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus.  (pages 101)Mogens Lærke
'Promising' ideas: Hobbes and contract in Spinoza's political philosophy.  (pages 192)Don Garrett
Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise.  (pages 231)Michael A. Rosenthal
Narrative as the means to freedom: Spinoza on the uses of imagination.  (pages 250)Susan James

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Yitzhak Melamed
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