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The early Dutch reception of CartesianismIn Steven Nadler, Tad M. Schmaltz & Delphine Antoine-Mahut (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Descartes and Cartesianism, Oxford University Press. 2019.
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5The dictionary of seventeenth and eighteenth-century Dutch philosophers (edited book)Thoemmes Press. 2003.In this "Dictionary," more than four hundred biographical entries encompass all the Dutch thinkers who exercised a major influence on the intellectual life of the Golden Age, as well as those who developed their ideas and beliefs through interaction with other scholars. Additional entries describe foreign philosophers who lived in the country temporarily and whose work was influenced by their stay. These include John Locke, Rene Descartes and Pierre Bayle.
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24Dark matters: Pessimism and the problem of sufferingBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 31 (3): 561-564. 2022.Mara van der Lugt’s Dark Matters is elegant in its composition and beautifully written. It offers a brilliant attempt to give both early modern optimism and pessimism their due as philosophical sta...
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19This book attempts to provide a general interpretation of the history of philosophy in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. It concentrates on the heritage of Humanism, and on the rise of Dutch Cartesianism and Spinozism.
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7Thirteen chapters on individual authors such as Spinoza, Bayle, Van Effen and Hemsterhuis, and on schools of thought such as Dutch Cartesianism, Newtonianism and Wolffianism. It also addresses the early Dutch reception of Kant.
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5This book contains 15 essays on the philosophy, theology and reception of Pierre Bayle, who is now generally regarded as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment.
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22Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance by Ada PalmerJournal of the History of Philosophy 54 (1): 164-165. 2016.This is a truly remarkable first book, based on a Ph.D. thesis. It brilliantly manages to address both the general reader and the experts, is skillfully written and beautifully illustrated. The fate of Epicureanism during the Renaissance has recently drawn considerable attention and produced a series of important monographs by such established authors as Catherine Wilson, Alison Brown, and Stephen Greenblatt. Reading Lucretius in the Renaissance is such a welcome addition to the existing literat…Read more
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3Johannes Bredenburg and the Korte VerhandelingStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 4 (n/a): 321-328. 1988.
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31De oorsprong Van het atheïsme (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 62 (3): 565-572. 2000.In this review of Winfried Schröder's study of the origins of atheism it is argued that Schröder has brilliandy managed to present a coherent interpretation of the early modern corpus of so-called 'clandestine manuscripts'. His view, however, that from an 18th-century perspeaive it was 'unscientific' to propound atheism seems questionable as does his insistence on the absence of such classical philosophers as Spinoza in early modern atheistic texts. Yet as a guide to 17th-and 18th-century clande…Read more
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6De draagbare Spinoza (edited book)Prometheus. 1992.Keuze uit het werk van de Nederlandse filosoof (1632-1677).
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3Spinoza'z jewish identity and the use of contextStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 13 100-118. 1997.
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3This book contains 15 essays on the philosophy, theology and reception of Pierre Bayle, who is now generally regarded as one of the key authors of the early Enlightenment.
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Geulincx entre Descartes et Spinoza (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 14 308-309. 1998.
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7Before philosophy: Theory and practice in the emerging Dutch republic, 1580–1620The European Legacy 4 (5): 1-22. 1999.
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5Scholarly Spinozism in the Netherlands and FlandersTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 71 (1): 11-36. 2009.
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Spinoza: Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Discussions (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 14 315-321. 1998.
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"Le jeune SPINOZA: Les premiers écrits" and "Les premiers écrits de Spinoza" (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 6 (n/a): 372. 1990.
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'Early Modern Philosophical Systems'In Charles Fantazzi Jan Bloemendal Philip Ford (ed.), Brill's Encyclopedia of the Neo-Latin World, . pp. 649-663. 2014.
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A tragic idealist: Jacob OstensStudia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 4 (n/a): 263-279. 1988.
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3'Geleerd' spinozisme in Nederland en Vlaanderen, 1945-2000Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 71 (1): 11-36. 2009.
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4This volume consists of 21 papers delivered at an international Spinoza conference on Disguised and Overt Spinozism around 1700, held at the Erasmus University ...
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2The Continuum companion to Spinoza (edited book)Continuum. 2011.Life -- Influences -- Early critics -- Glossary -- Short synopses -- Spinoza scholarship.
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98The Politics of Appropriation: Erasmus and BayleErasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook 33 (01): 3-21. 2013.
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Spinoza En Zijn Critici Over de Autonomie van Het AttribuutMededelingen Vanwege Het Spinozahuis 72. 1995.
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Revue des Sciences Philosophiques et Théologiques 71 (1987): ‘Les premiers écrits de Spinoza’ & Archives de Philosophie 51 (1988), ibid. (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 6 (n/a). 1990.
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7This book attempts to provide a general interpretation of the history of philosophy in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.
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7Balthasar Bekker's cartesian hermeneutics and the challenge of spinozismBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 1 (1). 1993.(1993). Balthasar Bekker's Cartesian hermeneutics and the challenge of Spinozism. British Journal for the History of Philosophy: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 55-79.
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