Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise'

A Critical Guide

Michael A Rosenthal editor Yitzhak Y Melamed editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Nov '10

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This book explores the debates surrounding Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise, covering topics such as political theory, metaphysics and religious toleration.

Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was published anonymously in 1670 and immediately provoked huge debate. 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.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.

"...Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise: A Critical Guide is a delightful book, an impressive demonstration of erudition and scholarship. The presentation is clear and forthright." --George Lăzăroiu, PhD, Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, New York

ISBN: 9780521882293

Dimensions: 234mm x 159mm x 20mm

Weight: 630g

310 pages