Jonathan Israel is Professor of Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is author of Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750 (2001). Michael Silverthorne is Honorary University Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Exeter. He is co-editor with Lisa Jardine of Francis Bacon: The New Organon (2000).

• Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text and translation; Theological-Political Treatise; Annotations: Spinoza's supplementary notes to the Theological-Political Treatise.

Jonathan Israel is Professor of Modern European History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is author of Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750 (2001). Michael Silverthorne is Honorary University Fellow, Department of Classics, University of Exeter. He is co-editor with Lisa Jardine of Francis Bacon: The New Organon (2000).

• Introduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text and translation; Theological-Political Treatise; Annotations: Spinoza's supplementary notes to the Theological-Political Treatise.