A Book Forged in Hell : : Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age /

A Book Forged in Hell : : Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age / / Steven Nadler.

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 t...

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Nadler, Steven,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 halftone.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Prologue
  • Chapter 2. The Theological-Political Problem
  • Chapter 3. Rasphuis
  • Chapter 4. Gods and Prophets
  • Chapter 5. Miracles
  • Chapter 6. Scripture
  • Chapter 7. Judaism, Christianity, and True Religion
  • Chapter 8. Faith, Reason, and the State
  • Chapter 9. Libertas philosophandi
  • Chapter 10. The Onslaught
  • A Note on Texts and Translations
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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