The Dutch legacy : : radical thinkers of the 17th century and the Enlightenment / / edited by Sonja Lavaert and Winfried Schroder.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lavaert, Sonja, 1958-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (266 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

While Spinoza’s impact on the early Enlightenment has always found due attention of historians of philosophy, several 17th-century Dutch thinkers who were active before Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus was published have been largely neglected: in particular Spinoza’s teacher, Franciscus van den Enden ( Vrye Politijke Stellingen , 1665), Johan and Pieter de la Court ( Consideratien van Staet , 1660, Politike discoursen , 1662), Lodewijk Meyer ( Philosophia S. Scripturae Interpres , 1666), the anonymous De Jure Ecclesiasticorum (1665), and Adriaan Koerbagh ( Een Bloemhof van allerley lieflijkheyd , 1668, Een Ligt schynende in duystere plaatsen , 1668). The articles of this volume focus on their political philosophy as well as their philosophy of religion in order to assess their contributions to the development of radical movements (republicanism / anti-monarchism, critique of religion, atheism) in the Enlightenment.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Sonja Lavaert and Winfried Schröder -- ‘Concordia Res Parvae Crescunt’: The Context of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Radicalism / Wiep van Bunge -- Dutch Golden Age Politics and the Rise of the Radical Enlightenment: An Overview / Jonathan Israel -- Van den Enden and Religion / Frank Mertens -- The Philosophia S. Scripturae Interpres between Humanist Scholarship and Cartesian Science: Lodewijk Meyer and the Emancipatory Power of Philology / Henri Krop -- The Monopoly of Social Affluence: The Jus circa sacra around Spinoza / Roberto Bordoli -- ‘Lieutenants’ of the Commonwealth: A Political Reading of De jure ecclesiasticorum / Sonja Lavaert -- Socinian Headaches: Adriaan Koerbagh and the Antitrinitarians / Sascha Salatowsky -- Abraham van Berkel’s Translations as Contributions to the Dutch Radical Enlightenment / Michiel Wielema -- Between Machiavelli and Hobbes: The Republican Ideology of Johan and Pieter De la Court / Stefano Visentin -- Index of Names -- Index of Anonymous Texts -- Index of Subjects.