Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A

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.

List of contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xii
List of abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Spinoza's exchange with Albert Burgh	p. 11
The text of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus	p. 29
Spinoza on Ibn Ezra's "secret of the twelve"	p. 41
Reflections of the medieval Jewish-Christian debate in the Theological-Political Treatise and the Epistles	p. 56
The early Dutch and German reaction to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: foreshadowing the Enlightenment's more general Spinoza reception?	p. 72
G. W. Leibniz's two readings of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus	p. 101
The metaphysics of the Theological-Political Treatise	p. 128
Spinoza's conception of law: metaphysics and ethics	p. 143
Getting his hands dirty: Spinoza's criticism of the rebel	p. 168
"Promising" ideas: Hobbes and contract in Spinoza's political philosophy	p. 192
Spinoza's curious defense of toleration	p. 210
Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise	p. 231
Narrative as the means to Freedom: Spinoza on the uses of imagination	p. 250
Bibliography	p. 268
Index	p. 286
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