Dutch Legacy : Radical Thinkers of the 17th Century and the Enlightenment. This item is unavailable.Dutch Legacy : Radical Thinkers of the 17th Century and the Enlightenment

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.

Sonja Lavaert is Professor of Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She has published on political philosophy, early modern and enlightenment philosophy, i.a. Spinoza and Machiavelli, including Het perspektief van de multitude (Brussels, 2011).

Winfried Schröder is Professor of Philosophy at Marburg University. He has published on early modern and enlightenment philosophy, Spinoza in der deutschen Frühaufklärung, (Würzburg, 1987); Ursprünge des Atheismus, (2nd ed. Stuttgart, 2012), philosophy of religion, Gestalten des Deismus, (Wiesbaden, 2010); Athen und Jerusalem, (Stuttgart, 2013), the history of moral philosophy, Moralischer Nihilismus, (2nd ed. Stuttgart, 2005), and the historiography of philosophy, Reading between the Lines. Leo Strauss and the History of Early Modern Philosophy, (Boston and Berlin, 2015). He is editor of the Traité des trois imposteurs (3rd ed. Hamburg, 2010) and the series Philosophische Clandestina der deutschen Aufklärung, (Stuttgart, 1994).