(Ebook) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Spinoza by Wiep van Bunge, Henri Krop, Piet Steenbakkers, Jeroen M. M. van de Ven ISBN 9781350256422, 1350256420

(Ebook) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Spinoza by Wiep van Bunge, Henri Krop, Piet Steenbakkers, Jeroen M. M. van de Ven ISBN 9781350256422, 1350256420

upon historical documents 1

1 Prologue: Spinoza’s family and early upbringing 2

2 Birth and early childhood in the ‘Jerusalem of the North’ 5

3 Formal education and intellectual training 7

4 Mercator sapiens, expulsion and earliest writings 14

5 Outside the walls of Leiden Academia 18

6 Composing an adumbration of Descartes, expanding the scholarly network 23

7 A writing project on ‘angels, prophecy and miracles’, practitioner of optics

and mechanics 27

8 Homo audax 33

9 ‘A pestilent book from Hamburg called Tractatus Theologo-Politicus’ 37

10 A banned clandestine author 43

11 Completing the five-part Ethica 48

12 Fatal disease, death and burial 53

13 Estate and legacy 55

14 Epilogue. Posthumous writings, early reactions, ban and index 60

Printed editions and translations of Spinoza’s writings prior to 1800 68

2 Influences 73

Introduction 73

Antiquity 76

The Stoa 78

The Latin Middle Ages 80

Jewish philosophical influences: Maimonides, Crescas, Abrabanel,

Menasseh ben Israel, Kabbalah, Delmedigo 86

Machiavelli, Niccolò (1469–1527) 94

Bacon, Francis (1561–1626) 96

Hobbes, Thomas (1588–1679) 98

Burgersdijk, Franck Pieterszoon (1590–1635) 100

Descartes, René (1596–1650) 102

Enden, Franciscus Van den (1602–74) 106

Heereboord, Adriaan (1614–61) 109

De la Court, Pieter (1618–85) and Johan (1622–60) 111