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Spinoza, Life and Legacy

A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man’s life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza’s reception in his own time and in the years following his death. The boldest and most unsettling of the major early modern philosophers, Spinoza, had a much greater, if often concealed, impact on the international intellectual scene and on the early Enlightenment than philosophers, historians, and political theorists have conventionally tended to recognize. Europe-wide efforts to prevent the reading public and university students learning about Spinoza, the man and his work, in the years immediately after his death in 1677, dominated much of his early reception owing to the revolutionary implications of his thought for philosophy, religion, practical ethics and lifestyle, Bible criticism, and political theory. Nevertheless, contrary to what has sometimes been maintained, his general impact was immediate, very widespread, and profound. One of the main objectives of the book is to show how early and how deeply Leibniz, Bayle, Arnauld, Henry More, Anne Conway, Richard Baxter, Robert Boyle, Henry Oldenburg, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Richard Simon, and Nicholas Steno, among many others, were affected by and led to wrestle with his principal ideas. There have been surprisingly few biographies of Spinoza, given his fundamental importance in intellectual history and history of philosophy, Bible criticism, and political thought. Jonathan I. Israel has written a biography which provides more detail and context about Spinoza’s life, family, writings, circle of friends, highly unusual career and networking, and early reception than its predecessors. Weaving the circumstances of his life and thought into a detailed biography has also led to several notable instances of nuancing or revising our notions of how to interpret certain of his assertions and philosophical claims, and how to understand the complex international reaction to his work during his life-time and in the years immediately following his death.

Table contents:

Part I. Setting the Scene
1. Introduction
2. Unparalleled Challenge
2.i Philosophy that Survived by a Thread
2.ii Banning Spinoza’s Books and Ideas
2.iii Spinoza and Europe’s Late Seventeenth-Century Intellectual Crisis
Part II. The Young Spinoza
3. Youthful Rebel
3.i Caution and Audacity
3.ii Heretical Opinions
3.iii Expulsion from the Synagogue
4. A Secret Legacy from Portugal
4.i Crypto-Judaism and Religious Subversion
4.ii Vidigueira
4.iii Spinoza’s Mother’s Family
4.iv Absolutism Enthroned
4.v Exiles Fleeing Portugal
4.vi Revolutionary Subversion by Means of Philosophy
5. Childhood and Family Tradition
5.i From Brit Milah to Bar Mitzvah (1632–1645)
5.ii Spinoza’s Forebears, the Mechanics of Community Leadership
5.iii The Sephardic Cemetery at Ouderkerk
5.iv The Spinozas of Amsterdam and Rotterdam
6. Schooldays
6.i Ets Haim
6.ii Uriel da Costa
6.iii World Events Viewed from School
6.iv Last Years of Schooling
6.v Family Tensions
7. Honour and Wealth
7.i Son of a Merchant
7.ii The First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–1654)
7.iii Spinoza Becomes Head of the Family
7.iv Collapse of the Family Fortune
7.v Renouncing his Inheritance
8. Teaching Skills: Van den Enden, Latin, and the Theatre (1655–1661)
8.i Disciple of a Schoolmaster
8.ii A Career in the Church Abandoned
8.iii Spinoza Embraces Cartesianism
8.iv Learning from the Roman Playwrights Terence and Seneca
8.v A New Form of Pedagogy
9. Collegiants, Millenarians, and Quakers: The Mid- and Late 1650s
10. “Monstrous Heresies”: Beyond Bible and Religious Studies
10.i First Writings
10.ii The La Peyrère Episode
10.iii Dr Juan (Daniel) de Prado (1612–1670)
10.iv Denounced to the Inquisition
10.v Eternal Things and their Unchangeable Laws
Part III. Reformer and Subverter of Descartes
11. Forming a Study Group
11.i The Birth of a Philosophical System (1659–1661)
11.ii Translation, the Key to Making Philosophy Effective
11.iii Bridging the Gulf between Collegiants and Freethinkers
11.iv An Abhorred Clique
12. Rijnsburg Years (1661–1663)
12.i The Move to Rijnsburg
12.ii Meeting Oldenburg
12.iii Steno and Anatomical Dissection
12.iv Debating Cartesianism with the Leiden Cartesians
13. Spinoza and the Scientific Revolution
13.i Challenging Bacon and Boyle
13.ii Spinoza and Experimental Science
13.iii Mathematics and Scientific Truth
14. “Reforming” Descartes’ Principles
15. Writing the Ethics
16. Voorburg (1663–1664)
16.i The Setting
16.ii Spinoza and Huygens
16.iii A Local Dispute
16.iv De Jure Ecclesiasticorum
17. Spinoza and the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664–1667)
17.i Rivalry with England
17.ii Plague and the Outbreak of War
18. Invasion, Slump, and Comets (1665–1666)
18.i The Greatest Curse of Mankind
18.ii Are Comets Fearful Omens?
18.iii Descartes’ Laws of Motion
19. Spinoza, Meyer, and the 1666 Philosophia Controversy
19.i A Bitter Controversy
19.ii The Revolt of Johannes and Adriaan Koerbagh
19.iii The Philosophia and the Reformed Church
19.iv The Utrecht Collegie der Sçavanten
20. From the Jaws of Defeat (1666–1667)
20.i Faltering Dialogue with the Royal Society
20.ii The Sabbatian Frenzy (1665–1667)
20.iii Science and Miracles
20.iv The Sway of Kings
Part IV. Darkening Horizons
21. The Tragedy of the Brothers Koerbagh (1668–1669)
22. Nil Volentibus Arduum: Spinoza and the Arts
23. Twilight of the “True Freedom”
23.i Last Years in Voorburg
23.ii The Move to The Hague
23.iii Ideological Conflict
23.iv Democratic Republicanism
24. Revolution in Bible Criticism
24.i The Dutch Background
24.ii Ezra the Scribe
24.iii The Masoretic Age
24.iv Spinoza’s Critique of Meyer
25. Spinoza Subverts Hobbes
25.i Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Gospels
25.ii Hobbes and Spinoza on “Freedom”
25.iii Happiness and the “Highest Good”
25.iv From the “Highest Good” to the “General Will”
26. Spinoza Completes his Philosophical System
26.i Emancipating the Individual
26.ii Popular Sovereignty and the “General Will”
27. Publishing the Theological-Political Treatise
27.i First Steps to Suppress the TTP
27.ii A Text Left Unchallenged
27.iii Spinoza’s Clandestine Subversion of Religion
27.iv Steno Responds
28. Intensifying Reaction (Early 1670s)
28.i How Does One Refute the TTP?
28.ii Collegiant Uproar and the TTP
28.iii Encounter with Van Velthuysen
28.iv Remonstrants (Arminians) against the TTP
29. Spinoza’s Libertine “French Circle”
29.i Libertinage in the 1660s
29.ii Spinoza Confides: The First Phase
29.iii Spinoza’s Reformism_ The Later Phases
Part V. Last Years
30. Disaster Year (1672)
30.i Slump and Collapse
30.ii Salvaging the Republic
30.iii The Fullana Affair
30.iv Monarchy Lambasted
31. Denying the Supernatural
32. Entering (or Not Entering) Princely Court Culture (1672–1673)
32.i Contemplating Emigrating
32.ii The Offer of a University Chair at Heidelberg
32.iii The Court of Hanover
33. Creeping Diffusion
33.i The TTP’s Clandestine Editions
33.ii Spinoza “Invades” England
33.iii The Suppressed Dutch Version of the TTP
34. Mysterious Trip to Utrecht (July–August 1673)
34.i The Utrecht Collegie der Sçavanten
34.ii Portraying “Spinozism” in 1673
34.iii Across the French Lines
34.iv Chaotic Aftermath
35. Expanding the Spinozist “Sect”
35.i “Vile, Godforsaken Atheists”
35.ii “Spinozism” Far from Being a Vague Category
35.iii A Sect Bred in the Universities and Professions
35.iv A Disciple Rescued: Van Balen
35.v The Expanding Sect of the 1680s and 1690s
36. Amsterdam Revisited (1673–1675)
36.i The Orangist-Calvinist Reaction Intensifies
36.ii Summer Weeks in Amsterdam
36.iii Failed Attempt to Publish the Ethics
36.iv What is True in Christianity?
37. Hebrew in Spinoza’s Later Life
37.i Studying Hebrew Grammar
37.ii Reconstructing Biblical Hebrew
37.iii Old Testament, New Testament: Jews and Christians
38. Encounter with Leibniz (1676)
38.i Leibniz and Spinoza
38.ii Discussing Spinoza in Paris
38.iii Leibniz Visits Holland
38.iv Leibniz’s Dual Approach to Spinozism
39. Fighting Back
39.i The English Reception
39.ii Spinoza “Invades” France (1676–1680)
40. Last Days, Death, and Funeral (1677)
40.i Reclusive but Contested Last Days
40.ii Funeral at the Nieuwe Kerk (New Church)
41. A Tumultuous Aftermath
41.i The Battle of the Ethics (1677)
41.ii Spinoza’s Circle after 1677
41.iii Spinoza and the Glorious Revolution
41.iv The Emergence of the “Dutch” Spinoza
42. Conclusion