Spinoza, Life and Legacy

Spinoza, Life and Legacy

 
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ISBN13:9780198857488
ISBN10:0198857489
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:1344 pages
Size:240x165x60 mm
Weight:1618 g
Language:English
Illustrations: 63 images
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Table of Contents:
Part I: Setting the Scene
Introduction
Unparalleled Challenge
Part II: The Young Spinoza
Youthful Rebel
Secret Legacy from Portugal
Childhood and Family Tradition
Schooldays
Honour and Wealth
Teaching Skills: Van den Enden (1656-1661), Latin, and the Theatre
Collegiants, Millenarians, and Quakers: the Mid- and Late 1650s
'Monstrous Heresies': Ties with Marrano Deists
Part III: Reformer and Subverter of Descartes
Forming a Study Group
Rijnsburg Years (1661-63)
Spinoza and the Scientific Revolution
'Reforming' Descartes' Principles
Writing the Ethics
Voorburg
Spinoza and the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664-1667)
Invasion, Slump, and Comets (1665-66)
Spinoza, Meyer, and The 1666 Philosophia Controversy
From the Jaws of Defeat
Part IV: Darkening Horizons
The Tragedy of the Brothers Koerbagh (1668-1669)
Nil Volentibus Arduum: Spinoza and the Arts
Twilight of the 'True Freedom'
Revolution in Bible Criticism
Spinoza Subverts Hobbes
Publishing the Theological-Political Treatise
Intensifying Reaction (early 1670s)
Spinoza's Libertine '"French Circle'
Reshaping the Republic: from Oligarchic to Democratic Republicanism
Part V: Last Years
Disaster Year (1672)
Denying the Supernatural
Entering (or Not Entering) Princely Court Culture (1672-73)
Creeping Diffusion
Mysterious Trip to Utrecht (July-August 1673)
Expanding the 'Spinozist Sect'
Amsterdam Revisited (1673-75)
Hebrew in Spinoza's Later Life
Encounter with Leibniz (1676)
Fighting Back
Last Days, Death, and Funeral (1677)
A Stormy Aftermath
Conclusion: Philosophy integrated with Bible Critique and Political Theory