Commentary

• “Spinoza’s Conception of Sovereignty”

  - Prokhovnik, Raia. “Spinoza’s Conception of Sovereignty.” History of European Ideas 27, no. 3 (2001): 289–306. doi:10.1016/S0191-6599(01)00051-1.
  Abstract: “The article argues that Spinoza’s principle of political order represents a conception of sovereignty which is both historically intelligible and analytically coherent. The appropriateness of four meanings of sovereignty to… More

• “I Durst Not Write So Boldly’ or, How to Read Hobbes’s Theological-political Treatise”

  - Curley, Edwin. “‘I Durst Not Write So Boldly’ or, How to Read Hobbes’s Theological-political Treatise.” Hobbes e Spinoza, Scienza e Politica, Pp497–593 (1992).
  Excerpt: “One of the most tantalizing anecdotes in Aubrey’s not so brief life of Hobbes concerns Hobbes’ (alleged) reaction to Spinoza’s Theological-Political Trea­tise (TTP).  As recently emended, the entire passage runs as follows:… More