BENEDICT DE SPINOZA: Theological-Political Treatise

Further reading
‘Hobbes and Spinoza’ in The Cambridge History of Political Thought, 1450^
1700, (ed.) J. H. Burns and M. Goldie (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 530^57.For
Spinoza’s relation to Leibniz, see the lively volume by Matthew Stuart,The
Courtier and the Heretic. Leibniz, Spinoza and the Fate of God in the Modern
World (New Haven, CT, 2005).
On Spinoza’s separation of theology from philosophy, seeTheoVerbeek,
Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise. Exploring the Will of God (Aldershot,
2003). On Spinoza’s Toleration theory, see Michael A. Rosenthal,
‘Tolerance as a Virtue in Spinoza’s Ethics’, Journal of the History of
Philosophy, 39 (2001), pp. 535^57; Michael Rosenthal, ‘Spinoza’s
Republican Argument for Toleration’, The Journal of Political Philosophy,
11 (2003), pp. 320^37; Jonathan Israel, ‘Spinoza, Locke and the
Enlightenment Battle for Toleration’, in O. P.Grell and Roy Porter (eds.),
Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 102^13.
On Spinoza’s Bible criticism, see J. Samuel Preus, Spinoza and the
Irrelevance of Biblical Authority (Cambridge, 2001); J. Samuel Preus, ‘A
Hidden Opponent in Spinoza’s Tractatus’, Harvard Theological Review, 88
(1995), pp. 361^88; Edwin Curley, ‘Notes on a Neglected Masterpiece:
Spinoza and the Science of Hermeneutics’ in G. Hunter (ed.), Spinoza: the
Enduring Questions (Toronto, 1994), pp. 64^97; Pierre-Franc¸ois Moreau,
‘Louis Meyer et l’Interpres’, Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Theólogiques
(Paris), 76 (1992), pp. 73^84; Wim Klever,‘In Defence of Spinoza: Four
Critical Notes on Modern Scholarship’, Studia Spinozana, 7 (1991),
pp. 205^23; and Richard H. Popkin, ‘Spinoza and Bible Scholarship’ in
Garret, Cambridge Companion,pp.383^407. Speci¢cally on the question of
the doctrine of the election of Israel, see David Novak,‘Spinoza and the
Doctrine of the Election of Israel’, Studia Spinozana, 13 (1997), pp. 81^99.
On Spinoza’s ethics and theory of the passions and psychology, see Don
Garrett, ‘Spinoza’s Ethical Theory’ in Garrett (ed.), The Cambridge
Companion, pp.267^314; Antonio Damasio, Looking for Spinoza. Joy,
Sorrow and the Feeling Brain (Orlando, FL, 2003); and J. Thomas Cook,
‘Spinoza and the Plasticity of the Mind’, Studia Spinozana 14 (1998),
pp. 111^34. For a discussion of Spinoza’s rede¢nition of the term ‘piety’,
see Wim Klever,‘Spinoza’s Concept of Christian Piety’, in North American
Spinoza Society Monograph no. ix (2000), pp. 17^27.
On Spinoza’s general intellectual legacy, see Pierre-Franc¸ois Moreau,
‘Spinoza’s Reception and In£uence’ in Garrett (ed.), Cambridge Companion
to Spinoza,pp.408^33; Willi Goetschel, Spinoza’s Modernity. Mendelssohn,
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