List of contributors Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Michael Rosenthal 1. Spinoza's exchange with Albert Burgh Edwin Curley 2. The text of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Piet Steenbakkers 3. Spinoza on Ibn Ezra's Secret of the Twelve Warren Zev Harvey 4. Reflections of the medieval Jewish-Christian debate in the Theological-Political Treatise and the Epistles Daniel J. Lasker 5. The early Dutch and German reaction to the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: foreshadowing the Enlightenment's more general Spinoza reception? Jonathan Israel 6. G. W. Leibniz's two readings of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Mogens Laerke 7. The metaphysics of the Theological-Political Treatise Yitzhak Y. Melamed 8. Spinoza's conception of law: metaphysics and ethics Donald Rutherford 9. Getting his hands dirty: Spinoza's criticism of the rebel Michael Della Rocca 10. 'Promising' ideas: Hobbes and contract in Spinoza's political philosophy Don Garrett 11. Spinoza's curious defense of toleration Justin Steinberg 12. Miracles, wonder, and the state in Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise Michael A. Rosenthal 13. Narrative as the means to freedom: Spinoza on the uses of imagination Susan James Bibliography.
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