From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution : : Essays on Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series ; v.291
• Author: van Bunge, Wiep.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2018.; Ã2019.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (387 pages)

Thirteen 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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the Exception of the Dutch Enlightenment -- Chapter 1 Bayle's Scepticism Revisited -- 1 The Dutch Refuge between Golden Age and Dutch Enlightenment -- 2 The Bayle Enigma -- 3 Bayle on Toleration -- 4 Bayle's Scepticism -- 5 Bayle's 'Pyrrhonism' -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Bayle and Erasmus: the Politics of Appropriation -- 1 Erasmus of Rotterdam -- 2 Bayle on Erasmus -- 3 Erasmus and Bayle in the Republic of Letters -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Bayle's Presence in the Dutch Republic -- 1 Bayle among the Dutch -- 2 Justus van Effen and Bernard Mandeville -- 3 A Sceptical Crisis in the Dutch Republic? -- 4 Aftermath -- Chapter 4 Justus van Effen on Reason and Virtue -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Moderate? -- 3 De Hollandsche Spectator -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Dutch Cartesianism and the Advent of Newtonianism -- 1 Voltaire versus Descartes -- 2 Dutch Cartesianism and Newtonianism -- 3 Burchard de Volder -- 4 Cartesian 'Rationalism' -- 5 Balthasar Bekker's Cartesianism -- 6 Bekker on Traces and Testimony -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Waning of the Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of Dutch Newtonianism -- 1 The Second Stadholderless Period -- 2 Isaac Newton -- 3 Early Dutch Newtonianism -- 4 Physico-Theology -- 5 Newtonians at Leiden and Utrecht -- Chapter 7 The Return of Rationalism -- 1 The Restoration of the Stadholderate -- 2 Wolffians at Groningen and Franeker -- 3 Wolffian Natural Law -- 4 The Rule of Reason -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 8 Frans Hemsterhuis: the Philosopher as Escape Artist -- 1 'Frisian Socrates' -- 2 Hemsterhuis and Rousseau -- 3 Hemsterhuis and Winckelmann -- 4 Conclusion: Frans Hemsterhuis and the Dutch Enlightenment -- Chapter 9 The Batavian Revolution -- 1 Aan het volk van Nederland -- 2 The Orangist Response -- 3 Revolution -- 4 Philosophy?.

5 A Failure to Launch: Dutch Kantianism -- Chapter 10 Tolerating Turks? Perceptions of Islam in the Dutch Republic -- 1 Dutch Diversity -- 2 Pirates and Pilgrims -- 3 Playwrights and Professors -- 4 A Radical Alternative -- Chapter 11 The Rise and Fall of Dutch Cosmopolitanism -- 1 Dutch Proto-Cosmopolitanism -- 2 The Recovery of a Moral Imperative -- 3 Defining Dutch Philosophy and the Limits of Enlightenment -- Chapter 12 Eighteenth-Century Censorship of Philosophy -- 1 Silencing the Radicals -- 2 Post 1747 -- 3 Fighting Off Foreigners -- Chapter 13 Spinoza's Life: 1677-1802 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Sources -- 3 Toland to Voltaire on the Virtuous Atheist -- 4 Wolff to Jacobi and Stijl to Collot d'Escury -- 5 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.