Commentary

• “The Absurdity of Spinozism: Spinoza and His First Dutch Critics”

  - Van Bunge, Wiep. “The Absurdity of Spinozism: Spinoza and His First Dutch Critics.” Intellectual News 2, no. 1 (1997): 18–26. doi:10.1080/15615324.1997.10429233.
  Abstract: “Over the last thirty years, few early-modem philosophers have been studied as closely as the seventeenth-century Dutchman Baruch, or Benedict de, Spinoza (1631–1677). At the close of the 1960s, a number of important studies appeared which… More

• “On Leo Strauss’s Critique of Spinoza”

  - Smith, Steven B. “On Leo Strauss’s Critique of Spinoza.” Cardozo Law Review 25 (2003-2004): 741.
  Excerpt: ” In an essay from 1932 entitled Das Testament Spinozas, Leo Strauss observed that the reception of Spinoza has undergone various stages from condemnation as a soulless atheist and materialist, to canonization by the German romantics who saw… More