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10Patricia Easton, Thomas M. Lennon, and Gregor Sebba, "Bibliographia Malebranchiana: A Critical Guide to the Malebranche Literature into 1989" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (4): 633. 1993.
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10Review of Olli Koistinen, John Biro (eds.), Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (11). 2002.
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9Leiden 1640In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 18-50. 2017.
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9Spinoza: a lifeCambridge University Press. 2018.Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial. The story of Spinoza's life takes the reader into the heart of Jewish Amsterdam in the seventeenth century and, with Spinoza's exile from Judaism, into the midst of the tumultuous political, social, intellectual, and religious world of the young Dutch Republic. This new edition of Steven Nadler's biography, winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award for biography a…Read more
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9Reading Bayle Thomas M. Lennon Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999, ix + 202 pp., $60.00, $19.95 paper (review)Dialogue 40 (3): 626-. 2001.
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9Review of Adam Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2003 (5). 2003.
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9Philosophical Selections: From The Search After Truth, Translated by Thomas M. Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp ; from Elucidations of The Search After Truth, Translated by Thomas M. Lennon ; from Dialogues on Metaphysics, Translated by Willis Doney ; and from Treatise on Nature and Grace, Translated by Thomas Tylor, Revised by Steven Nadler (review)Hackett Publishing Company. 1992.These substantial selections from The Search after Truth, Elucidations of the Search after Truth, Dialogues on Metaphysics, and Treatise on Nature and Grace, provide the student of modern philosophy with both a broad view of Malebranche's philosophical system and a detailed picture of his most important doctrines. Malebranche's occasionalism, his theory of knowledge and the 'vision in God', and his writings on theodicy and freedom are solidly represented.
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9A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular AgePrinceton University Press. 2011.The story of one of the most important—and incendiary—books in Western history When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published—"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell... by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radi…Read more
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9Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy Volume 3 (edited book)Clarendon Press. 2006.Oxford University Press is proud to present the third volume in a new annual series, presenting a selection of the best current work in the history of philosophy. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries---the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. It also publishes papers on thinkers or movements outside of that framework, provided they are importan…Read more
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9Descartes and Augustine (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (4): 625-627. 1998.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:Descartes and Augustine by Stephen MennSteven NadlerStephen Menn. Descartes and Augustine. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xvi + 415. Cloth, $74.95.As most readers of this journal well know, scholars in the history of philosophy can, however roughly, be divided into two distinct (and sometimes antagonistic) camps: those who think that work on the great philosophers of the past should focus almost exclusive…Read more
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8Wiep Van Bunge: From Stevin to Spinoza: An Essay on Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch RepublicBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 10 (1): 135-136. 2002.
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8The Art of Cartesianism: The Illustrations of Clerselier’s Edition of Descartes’s Traité de l’hommeIn Stephen Gaukroger & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), Descartes' Treatise on Man and Its Reception, Springer. 2016.One of the more difficult tasks that Clerselier faced in bringing out his 1664 edition of the Traité de l'homme was securing the illustrations, eventually composed by La Forge and Gutschoven. After considering the chronology of this frustrating process, which is interesting in its own right, I will examine the illustrations themselves, comparing them with Schuyl’s illustrations for his 1662 Latin edition, and especially in the light of what Clerselier says were the intended purpose of such illus…Read more
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8In MemoriamJournal of the History of Philosophy 61 (2): 1-1. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:In MemoriamSteven Nadler, PresidentIt is with deep sadness that the Board of Directors of the Journal of the History of Philosophy, Inc., mourn the passing of Gerald Press, who died suddenly on December 26, 2022, at the age of seventy-seven.Jerry was a longtime member of the JHP Board. He was book review editor for the Journal from 1990 to 1997, and editor from 1998 to 2003. He also served terms as treasurer and vice president.Jerry …Read more
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8New Essays on the Rationalists (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 38 (3): 437-439. 2000.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:New Essays on the RationalistsSteven NadlerRocco J. Gennaro and Charles Huenemann, editors. New Essays on the Rationalists. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xvii + 391. Cloth, $60.00.Here is yet another collection of essays on early modern philosophy. The focus this time is on the Seventeenth century, in particular "the rationalists." What this apparently involves is, as the old-fashioned classification has it, …Read more
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8The Light of the Soul: Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche, and Descartes. Nicholas JolleyIsis 82 (4): 747-748. 1991.
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8Spinoza: L'expérience et l'éternité (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1): 143-145. 1996.BOOK REVIEWS 143 level of ignorance. I was, for example, surprised to learn that haecceitas is a compara- tively rare term in Scotus rather than signate matter. In his Introduction and Epilogue Gracia nicely counterbalances the tendency to- ward fragmentation stemming from the disparate accounts of individuality in the various thinkers represented in the volume. He does this, first, by highlighting for the reader the basic issues surrounding the problem of individuality, such as the concep- tion…Read more
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8Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV by Desmond M. Clarke (review)Isis 81 772-773. 1990.
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7Les vérités éternelles et l'autre monde : les racines juives de SpinozaLes Etudes Philosophiques 71 (4): 507. 2004.
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7A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular AgePrinceton University Press. 2011.The story of one of the most important—and incendiary—books in Western history When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published—"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell... by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a religious subversive and political radi…Read more
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7Spinoza ou L’« athée vertueux » (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (6): 1217-1219. 2016.
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7Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2014.Over the last two decades there has been an increasing interest in the influence of medieval Jewish thought upon Spinoza's philosophy. The essays in this volume, by Spinoza specialists and leading scholars in the field of medieval Jewish philosophy, consider the various dimensions of the rich, important, but vastly under-studied relationship between Spinoza and earlier Jewish thinkers. It is the first such collection in any language, and together the essays provide a detailed and extensive analy…Read more
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7Hanover 1686In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 72-99. 2017.
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6AcknowledgmentsIn Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 184-184. 2017.
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6Occult Powers and Hypotheses: Cartesian Natural Philosophy under Louis XIV. Desmond M. ClarkeIsis 81 (4): 772-773. 1990.
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6IntroductionIn Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 3-6. 2017.
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6Rome 1633In Ben Nadler & Steven Nadler (eds.), Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy, Princeton University Press. pp. 9-17. 2017.
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5Pierre Gassendi: humanism, science, and the birth of modern philosophyAnnals of Science. forthcoming.Pierre Gassendi (1592–1655) has never really received the respect he deserves, especially in the Anglo-American world. His contemporaries recognized his Christianized Epicurean system, with its mit...
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