Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise

André Tosel (1941–2017) was a prolific French philosopher and specialist of Spinoza, Marx and Italian Marxism as well as the history of modern philosophy. He taught at numerous French universities throughout his long career and published countless studies on philosophy and politics from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Engels and Gramsci. This is his first full length book to appear in English translation. David Maruzzella is a writer, editor and translator based in Chicago. He earned his PhD in philosophy from DePaul University and holds an MA in philosophie contemporaine from the École normale supérieure. He translated Ethics and Politics in Spinoza and Sartre by Gaye Cankaya Eksen and with Gil Moréjon, Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza by Alexandre Matheron. Bradley Ramos is a translator based in Albuquerque. He earned a PhD in philosophy from DePaul University. He is the author of Freud and the Problem of Sexuality (SUNY Press, 2024).

• AbbreviationsTranslators’ Introduction: Emancipatory Emendatio: Tosel, Spinoza and the Critical History of ScripturePrologue: The Theologico-Political Treatise, or the Manifesto for a Philosophy of LiberationChapter 1: Against Superstition, Intellectual and Moral ReformChapter 2: Superstition and ReadingChapter 3: A Sketch of a Critical History of the Theologico-Political TreatiseChapter 4: From the Critique of the Bible to the Critique of Revealed ReligionChapter 5: Critique of Revelation and ProphecyChapter 6: A New Treatise on Law, or the Underground Ethics of the Theologico-Political TreatiseChapter 7: The End of Miracles, The End of the SupernaturalChapter 8: The Problem of the Specificity of ChristianityChapter 9: From Practical Faith to the Refoundation of PoliticsConclusion: Theory and Transformation of the Theologico-Political FieldWorks CitedIndex