Spinoza Past and Present

Wiep van Bunge, Ph.D. (1990), Erasmus University Rotterdam, is Professor of the History of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at that university. He has published widely on the history of philosophy in the Dutch Republic.

"This is a work of solid and lucidly written scholarship, and van Bunge offers balanced and informative assessments of discussed topics […] I highly recommend the book to all those who want to obtain a more nuanced picture of Spinoza’s historical and philosophical context and of the influence of his thought." – Valtteri Viljanen, University of Turku, in: Renaissance Quaterly 66/3 (Fall 2013), p. 1054''In sum, this is a rich and varied collection of essays that will be of great interest not only to Spinoza scholars but to anyone interested in the Enlightenment and in Dutch intellectual history. It is a brilliant set of studies that illuminates the intellectual and historical contexts of Spinoza's philosophy, as well as its reception and influence.'' – Steven Nadler, in: Notre Dame Philosophical Review, 2013.03.19"Une collection d’essais riche et variée, qui sera d’un grand intérêt non seulement pour les spécialistes de Spinoza mais aussi pour quiconque s’intéresse aux Lumières et à l’histoire intellectuelle des Pays-bas." – Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin-Madison, in: Archives de Philosophie 76/4 (2013), p. 742

• AcknowledgmentsPreface 1. Baruch or Benedict? Spinoza as a ‘Marrano’ 2. The Autonomy of the Attributes3. The Idea of a Scientific Moral Philosophy4. Spinoza and the Collegiants5. The Idea of Religious Imposture6. The Politics of the Passions7. Causation and Intelligibility in the Tractatus theologico-politicus8. Vondel’s Noah on God and Nature9. Censorship of Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic10. Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Dutch Spinozism11. Radical Enlightenment: a Dutch Perspective12. Spinoza Past and PresentBibliographyIndex