The Bloomsbury Handbook of Spinoza (Bloomsbury Handbooks)

Cover
Contents
Preface
Introduction to the Companion Edition
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors
1 Life
	Spinoza’s life and time. A selective, annotated chronology based upon historical documents
	1 Prologue: Spinoza’s family and early upbringing
	2 Birth and early childhood in the ‘Jerusalem of the North’
	3 Formal education and intellectual training
	4 Mercator sapiens, expulsion and earliest writings
	5 Outside the walls of Leiden Academia
	6 Composing an adumbration of Descartes, expanding the scholarly network
	7 A writing project on ‘angels, prophecy and miracles’, practitioner of optics and mechanics
	8 Homo audax
	9 ‘A pestilent book from Hamburg called Tractatus Theologo-Politicus’
	10 A banned clandestine author
	11 Completing the five-part Ethica
	12 Fatal disease, death and burial
	13 Estate and legacy
	14 Epilogue. Posthumous writings, early reactions, ban and index
	Printed editions and translations of Spinoza’s writings prior to 1800
2 Influences
	Introduction
	Antiquity
	The Stoa
	The Latin Middle Ages
	Jewish philosophical influences: Maimonides, Crescas, Abrabanel, Menasseh ben Israel, Kabbalah, Delmedigo
	Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527)
	Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)
	Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679)
	Burgersdijk, Franck Pieterszoon (1590–1635)
	Descartes, René (1596–1650)
	Enden, Franciscus Van den (1602–74)
	Heereboord, Adriaan (1614–61)
	De la Court, Pieter (1618–85) and Johan (1622–60)
3 Early critics
	Pierre Bayle, Dictionnaire historique et critique (1697)
	Historical and critical dictionary, art. ‘Spinoza’
	Samuel Clarke, A demonstration of the being and attributes of God (1705)
	Henry More, Confutatio (1679)
	Bernard Nieuwentijt, Het regt gebruik der werelt beschouwingen [The ­religious philosopher] (1718)
	The religious philosopher
	John Toland, Letters to Serena (1704)
	Letter V. Motion essential to matter; in answer to some remarks by a noble friend on the Confutation of Spinosa
	Christoph Wittich, Anti-Spinoza (1690)
	Examination of the propositions. Proposition 1
	Proposition 2
	Proposition 3
	Proposition 4
	Proposition 5
	Proposition 6
	Proposition 7
4 Glossary
	Accidens
	Acquiescentia in se ipso
	Actio
	Adaequatus
	Adam
	Aequalitas
	Aeternitas
	Affectio
	Affectus
	Amicitia/Amicus
	Amor intellectualis Dei
	Animal
	Apostolus
	Appetitus
	Aristocratia
	Atheismus
	Attributum
	Axioma
	Beatitudo
	Bonum
	Caeremonia
	Causa
	Christus
	Civis
	Cogitatio
	Cognitio
	Conatus
	Conceptus
	Conscientia
	Corpus
	Definitio
	Democratia
	Denominatio
	Determinatio
	Deus, intellectus and voluntas Dei
	Distinctio
	Duratio
	Electio
	Ens
	Ens rationis
	Error
	Esse
	Essentia
	Excommunicare
	Existentia
	Experientia
	Exprimere/Expressio
	Extensio
	Femina/Mulier
	Fides
	Finis
	Fortitudo
	Fundamenta fidei
	Generositas
	Historia
	Homo
	Idea
	Imaginatio
	Imperium
	In se esse
	In suo genere
	Infinitum
	Intellectus
	Interpretatio
	Involvere
	Iudicium
	Jus
	Lex
	Liber
	Libertas
	Libertas philosophandi
	Mens
	Metaphysica
	Miraculum
	Modificatio
	Modus
	Monarchia
	Moses
	Motus
	Mulier, see Femina/Mulier
	Multitudo
	Natio Hebraica, see Respublica Hebraeorum/natio hebraica
	Natura
	Natura naturans/naturata
	Necessitas
	Negatio
	Nihil
	Nomen/Verbum
	Notio communis
	Ordo et connexio
	Ordo geometricus
	Pars
	Passio
	Pathema animi
	Paulus
	Pax
	Percipio
	Perfectio
	Philosophia
	Pietas
	Possibile
	Potentia
	Potestas
	Propheta
	Quatenus
	Ratio
	Realitas
	Religio
	Respublica hebraeorum/natio hebraica
	Respublica
	Revelatio
	Scriptura sacra
	Scientia intuitiva
	Servitudo
	Sive
	Societas
	Solomon
	Status naturae
	Sub specie aeternitatis
	Substantia
	Summa potestas
	Superstitio
	Tempus
	Theocratia
	Theologia
	Tolerantia
	Transcendentale
	Utile/Utilitas
	Vacuum
	Veritas
	Virtus
	Voluntas
5 Short synopsis of Spinoza’s works
	Works published by Spinoza
	Texts subsequently discovered; lost and spurious works; manuscripts
	Languages, translations
	Spinoza’s works
	1 Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect |Tractatus de intellectus emendatione
	2 Short Treatise of God, Man and His Well-Being | Korte verhandeling van God, de mensch en deszelvs welstand
	3 Parts I and II of Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts | Renati Des Cartes Principiorum philosophiae pars I et II, Cogitata metaphysica
	4 Theologico-Political Treatise and Annotations | Tractatus theologico-politicus, Adnotationes ad Tractatum theologico-politicum
	5 Ethics, Demonstrated in Geometric Order | Ethica ordine geometrico demonstrata
	6 Political Treatise | Tractatus politicus
	7 Concise Grammar of the Hebrew Language | Compendium grammatices linguae Hebraeae
	8 Correspondence | Epistolae
	Critical inventory of letters to and from Spinoza, 1661–76 (Gregorian calendar)
6 Spinoza scholarship
Index