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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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19The 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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27Dark 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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Het leven van Philopater en Vervolg van t leven van Philopater (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 13 310-311. 1997.
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31Disreputable Bodies: Magic, Medicine, and Gender in Renaissance Natural Philosophy. By Sergius Kodera (review)The European Legacy 18 (2): 258-259. 2013.
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Schobinger, J.-P., , Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie. Die Philosophie des 17. Jahrhunderts, Bd. 2: Frankreich und Niederlande (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 56 (3): 578-581. 1994.
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5"On the early Duth receptions of the" Tractatus-theologico-politicus"Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 5 (n/a): 225-252. 1989.
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Geschichte der Philosophie. Band VII. Die Philosophie der Neuzeit 1. Von Francis Bacon bis Spinoza (review)Studia Spinozana: An International and Interdisciplinary Series 16 318-319. 2008.
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17Balthasar Bekker onDaniel. An Early enlightenment critique of millenarianismHistory of European Ideas 21 (5): 659-673. 1995.
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29In Spinoza Past and Present Wiep van Bunge explores various aspects of Spinoza’s works and the often conflichting ways in which the Dutch philosopher’s views have been interpreted from the seventeenth century onwards.
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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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20De 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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18This 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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42Before philosophy: Theory and practice in the emerging Dutch republic, 1580–1620The European Legacy 4 (5): 1-22. 1999.
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23Scholarly 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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25'Geleerd' spinozisme in Nederland en Vlaanderen, 1945-2000Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 71 (1): 11-36. 2009.
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