Spinoza: Reason, Religion, Politics

In Spinoza: Reason, Religion, Politics, a diverse international group of scholars explore Spinoza's two major works Ethics, and Tractatus theologico-politicus. The essays confront both of these works together, and attempt to understand the ways in which they are related to one another.

Daniel Garber received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 1975. He was a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago from 1975 until 2002, when he moved to Princeton University. Garber currently is the A. Watson Armour III University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, and Affiliated Faculty in History of Science and Politics. He is the author of Descartes' Metaphysical Physics and Leibniz: Body, Substance, Monad, among other books and edited collections.
Mogens Lærke is Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a Senior Associate of Pembroke College, Oxford. Before joining the CNRS in 2013, he held positions at the Carlsberg Foundation, Tel Aviv University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Aberdeen. He is the Series Editor of the BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy series (OUP).
Pierre François Moreau is Emeritus Professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, where he was Professor of Philosophy from 1992 to 2016. He has written extensively on Lucretius, Hobbes, Spinoza, utopian novels and nineteenth-century French Philosophy. Moreau is the Director of the journal La lettre clandestine, dedicated to clandestine manuscripts and to libertine, heterodox, and materialist authors.
Pina Totaro is a Director of Research at the Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR), a member of the Istituto per il Lessico Intellettuale Europeo e Storia delle Idee (ILIESI) in Rome, and a certified professor in the History of Philosophy. Her scholarly interests are in the history of philosophy, Cartesianism, the philosophy of Spinoza and the history of Spinozism.

- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One: Two Intertwined Texts
- 1: Piet Steenbakkers: Parallel Masterpieces: Intertextuality in Spinoza's Ethics and Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 2: Pina Totaro: Continuity and Discontinuity Between the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the Ethics
- 3: Steven Nadler: Spinoza's 'Atheism', the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- Part Two: God and Atheism
- 4: Mogens Lærke: Prejudices, Common Notions, Intuitions: Knowledge of God between the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 5: Yitzhak Y. Melamed: Spinoza's 'Atheism', the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- Part Three: Laws: Natural, Human, and Divine
- 6: E.M Curley: Descartes and Spinoza on the Laws of Nature
- 7: Theo Verbeek: Divine Law in Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 8: Donald Rutherford: Divine Law and the Right Way of Living: From the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus to the Ethics
- Part Four: Wonder, Final Causes, and Miracles
- 9: Andrea Sangiacomo: Is Wonder a Remedy against the Passions? Spinoza's Struggle with Descartes's Legacy in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and in the Ethics
- 10: Emanuela Scribano: Finalism, Religion, and Miracles: From the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus to the Ethics
- Part Five: Revelation, Reason, and Salvation
- 11: Ursula Renz and Philip Waldner: Spinoza's Views on Prophecy and the Prophets Revisited
- 12: Daniel Garber: Philosophy and Theology, Reason and Revelation: the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 13: Russ Leo: Reason and Scripture in the Ethics and Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Jarig Jelles and Preface to the Nagelate schriften van B.D.S (1677)
- 14: Kristin Primus: Finding Oneself in God: Scientia Intuitiva as a Metaphysically Self-Locating Thought
- 15: Julie Klein: How to Make a Philosopher
- Part Six: Political Philosophy
- 16: Michael Rosenthal: Will, Sovereignty, and the Self in the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
- 17: Jonathan Israel: Where is the Collective Morality in Spinoza's Ethics? Connecting Spinoza's Ethics to his Political Philosophy