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

Name: Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise' A Critical Guide
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ISBN: 9781107636927

ISBN-10: 1107636922

ISBN-13: 9781107636927

Edition: 2013

Authors: Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Michael A. Rosenthal

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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 2010 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…

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List price: $47.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/30/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 310
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

Michael A. Rosenthal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous articles on Spinoza and early modern philosophy, which have appeared in journals including Archiv fï¿½r Geschichte der Philosophie, Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Journal of Political Philosophy. He is currently working on a book on the Theological-Political Treatise. He was recently a Visiting Fellow at the Forschungskolleg fï¿½r Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg, Germany.