Commentary

• “Spinoza and History”

  - Morrison, James. “Spinoza and History" in The Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, ed. Richard Kennington. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1980: 173–95.

• Spinoza’s Philosophy: An Outline

  - Harris, Errol E. Spinoza's Philosophy. Amherst: Humanity Books, 1993.
  From the Publisher: “Spinoza’s writings on metaphysics, ethics, and politics have had a remarkably diverse reception in recent times and have contributed to the current dialogue among philosophers, intellectual historians, and literary theorists.… More

• “The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews”: The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise’”

  - Yaffe, Martin D. “The Histories and Successes of the Hebrews": The Demise of the Biblical Polity in Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise’.” Jewish Political Studies Review 7 (1995): 57–75.
  Abstract: “This essay examines Spinoza’s account of political history of the Israelites (in chapter Seventeen of the Theologico-Political Treatise) in light of the standards which, he maintains, govern the writing of histories in general.”

• Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

  - Israel, Jonathan I. Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
  From the Publisher: “In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophers,… More