BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise

Further reading
The best recent account of Spinoza’s life and circle of friends is
undoubtedly Steven Nadler, Spinoza. A Life (Cambridge, 1999). A useful
additional recent summary of his intellectual development is Richard H.
Popkin, Spinoza (Oxford, 2004).
For a general bibliography of Spinoza in English from the seventeenth
century to the present see Wayne I. Boucher, Spinoza in English (Leiden,
1991).
For a general survey of Spinoza’s philosophy in context, see The
Cambridge Companion to Spinoza, ed. Don Garrett (Cambridge, 1996).
Further introductory and general outlines of Spinoza’s philosophy as an
integrated system areTheoVerbeek,‘Baruch de Spinoza’ in Alan Kors (ed.),
The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment (4 vols. Oxford, New York, 2003), iv,
pp. 117^20; Edwin Curley, Behind the Geometric Method. A Reading of
Spinoza’s Ethics (Princeton, NJ, 1988); G. H. R. Parkinson, ‘Editor’s
Introduction’ to B. Spinoza, Ethics (Oxford, 2000), pp. 5^54; StevenB.
Smith, Spinoza’s Book of Life. Freedom and Redemption in Ethics (New Haven,
CT, 2003) and Stuart Hampshire, Spinoza and Spinozism (Oxford, 2005).
For an excellent English translation of the Ethics by a major expert on
Spinoza’s philosophy, see Edwin Curley (ed.),The Collected Works of Spinoza
volume 1 (Princeton, NJ, 1988).
On the Dutch intellectual and philosophical context of Spinoza’s time,
and the other Dutch radical republicans and philosophical dissidents of
the age, see the essays in Wiep van Bunge (ed.), The Early Dutch
Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic, 1650^1750 (Leiden,2003), and inWiep
van Bunge and Wim Klever (eds.), Disguised and Overt Spinozism around
1700 (Leiden, 1996). Further helpful contributions are Wiep van Bunge,
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