Dutch Legacy: Radical Thinkers of the 17th Century and the Enlightenment

Sonja Lavaert is Professor of Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She has published on political philosophy, early modern and enlightenment philosophy, i.a. Spinoza and Machiavelli, including Het perspektief van de multitude (Brussels, 2011). Winfried Schröder is Professor of Philosophy at Marburg University. He has published on early modern and enlightenment philosophy, Spinoza in der deutschen Frühaufklärung, (Würzburg, 1987); Ursprünge des Atheismus, (2nd ed. Stuttgart, 2012), philosophy of religion, Gestalten des Deismus, (Wiesbaden, 2010); Athen und Jerusalem, (Stuttgart, 2013), the history of moral philosophy, Moralischer Nihilismus, (2nd ed. Stuttgart, 2005), and the historiography of philosophy, Reading between the Lines. Leo Strauss and the History of Early Modern Philosophy, (Boston and Berlin, 2015). He is editor of the Traité des trois imposteurs (3rd ed. Hamburg, 2010) and the series Philosophische Clandestina der deutschen Aufklärung, (Stuttgart, 1994).

“Scholars of the seventeenth century, the Enlightenment, and Benedict de Spinoza will profit from the essays collected in The Dutch Legacy. [… It is a text that] specialists will not want to miss.” --Hasana Sharp, McGill University Journal of the History of Philosophy, Volume 55, Number 4, October 2017, pp. 737-738.

• Introduction, Sonja Lavaert & Winfried Schröder‘Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt’: The Context of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Radicalism, Wiep van BungeDutch Golden Age Politics and the Rise of the Radical En¬lightenment. An Overview, Jonathan IsraelVan den Enden and Religion, Frank MertensThe Philosophia S. Scripturae Interpres between Humanist Scholarship and Cartesian Science. Lodewijk Meyer and the Emancipatory Power of Philology, Henri KropThe Monopoly of Social Affluence. The Jus circa sacra around Spinoza, Roberto Bordoli‘Lieutenants’ of the Commonwealth. A Political Reading of De jure ecclesiasticorum, Sonja LavaertSocinian Headaches. Adriaan Koerbagh and the Antitrinitarians, Sascha SalatowskyAbraham van Berkel’s Translations as Contributions to the Dutch Radical Enlightenment, Michiel WielemaBetween Machiavelli and Hobbes. The Republican Ideology of Johan and Pieter de la Court, Stefano Visentin Index