Commentary

• “Spinoza and the Political Problem”

  - Gildin, Hilail. "Spinoza and the Political Problem" in Spinoza. A collection of critical Essays, edited by Marjorie Grene, University of Notre Dame Press (Ind.), 2nd ed., 1979 (1st ed. : Anchor Books, New York, 1973), p. 377-387.

• “The ‘Separation’ of Religion and Politics: The Paradoxes of Spinoza”

  - Fradkin, Hillel G. “The ‘Separation’ of Religion and Politics: The Paradoxes of Spinoza.” The Review of Politics 50, no. 4 (October 1, 1988): 603–627. doi:10.2307/1407356.
  Abstract: “Benedict Spinoza is the first philosophical proponent of liberal democracy. In his Theologico-Political Tractate he calls for the liberation of philosophy from theology and for the subordination of religion to politics. Though Spinoza may… More

• Spinoza: The Enduring Questions

  - Hunter, Graeme, and David Savan. Spinoza: The Enduring Questions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

• “Anthropomorphism and Spinoza’s Innovations”

  - Preus, Samuel J. “Anthropomorphism and Spinoza’s Innovations.” Religion 25, no. 1 (January 1995): 1–8. doi:10.1006/reli.1995.0001.
  Abstract: “The first and most rigorous early modern discussion of anthropomorphism in religion was produced by Benedict Spinoza. The intellectual context for his consideration was the problem posed by biblical anthropomorphism for the philosophical… More

• The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study

  - Mason, Richard. The God of Spinoza: A Philosophical Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  From the publisher: “This book brings together Spinoza’s fundamental philosophical thinking with his conclusions about God and religion. Spinoza was born a Jew but chose to live outside any religious community. He was deeply engaged both in… 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

• Spinoza and Spinozism

  - Hampshire, Stuart. Spinoza and Spinozism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
  From the Publisher: “Stuart Hampshire, one of the most eminent British philosophers of the twentieth century, will be perhaps best remembered for his work on the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, all of which is gathered now in this volume. Among… More

• Radical Protestantism In Spinoza’s Thought

  - Hunter, Graeme. Radical Protestantism In Spinoza’s Thought. London: Ashgate Pub Ltd, 2005.
  From the Publisher: “Spinoza is praised as a father of atheism, a precursor of the Enlightenment, an ‘anti-theologian’ and a father of political liberalism. When the religious dimension of Spinoza’s thought cannot be ignored, it is… More

• Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity

  - Goldstein, Rebecca. Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. New York: Schocken, 2009.
  From the Publisher: “In 1656, Amsterdam’s Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty–three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as… More

• Spinoza’s Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason

  - Levene, Nancy K. Spinoza’s Revelation: Religion, Democracy, and Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
  From the Publisher: “Nancy Levene reinterprets a major early-modern philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza – a Jew who was rejected by the Jewish community of his day but whose thought contains, and critiques, both Jewish and Christian ideas. It… More

• Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise

  - James, Susan. Spinoza on Philosophy, Religion, and Politics: The Theologico-Political Treatise. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  From the Publisher: “Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise is simultaneously a work of philosophy and a piece of practical politics. It defends religious pluralism, a republican form of political organisation, and the freedom to philosophise,… More

• Spinoza’s Metaphysics by Itzhak Melamed

  - Melamed, Yitzhak Y. Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
  From the publisher: Yitzhak Melamed here offers a new and systematic interpretation of the core of Spinoza’s metaphysics. In the first part of the book, he proposes a new reading of the metaphysics of substance in Spinoza: he argues that for Spinoza… More