Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth-Century Europe: Studies on the Traité des Trois ImposteursSilvia Berti, Françoise Charles-Daubert, R.H. Popkin 'the oldest biography of Spinoza', La Vie de Mr. Spinosa, which in the manuscript copies is often followed by L'Esprit de M. Spinosa. Margaret Jacob, in her Radical Enlightenment, contended that the Traite was written by a radical group of Freemasons in The Hague in the early eighteenth century. Silvia Berti has offered evidence it was written by Jan Vroesen. Various discussions in the early eighteenth century consider many possi ble authors from the Renaissance onwards to whom the work might be attributed. The Trois imposteurs has attracted quite a bit of recent attention as one of the most significant irreligious clandestine writings available in the Enlightenment, which is most important for understanding the develop ment of religious scepticism, radical deism, and even atheism in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Scholars for the last couple of decades have been trying to assess when the work was actually written or compiled and by whom. In view of the widespread distribution of manu scripts of the work all over Europe, they have also been seeking to find out who was influenced by the work, and what it represented for its time. Hitherto unknown manuscripts are being turned up in public and private libraries all over Europe and the United States. |
Contents
The Leiden Seminar | vii |
HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE TRAITÉ DES TROIS IMPOSTEURS | 1 |
LEsprit de Spinosa ses origines et sa première édition dans leur contexte spinozien | 3 |
Une Histoire interminable origines et développement du Traité des trois imposteurs | 53 |
History and structure of our Traité des trois imposteurs | 75 |
LEsprit de Spinosa et les Traités des trois imposteurs rappel des différentes families et de leurs principales caractéristiques | 131 |
AROUND THE TRAITÉ | 191 |
Freethinking in early eighteenthcentury Protestant Germany Peter Friedrich Arpe and the Traité des trois imposteurs | 193 |
THE THREADS OF A TRADITION | 305 |
An eighteenthcentury interpretation of the Ethica Henry de Boulainvillierss Essai de métaphysique | 307 |
Legislators impostors and the politic origins of religion English theories of imposture from Stubbe to Toland | 333 |
Behold the fear of the Lord the Erastianism of Stillingfleet Wolseley and Tillotson | 357 |
Jesus Nazarenus legislator Adam Boreels defence of Christianity | 375 |
Johan Adler Salvius Questions to Baruch de Castro concerning De tribus impostoribus | 397 |
The struggle against unbelief in the Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam after Spinozas excommunication | 425 |
Worse than the three impostors? towards an interpretation of Theodor Ludwig Laus Meditationes philosophicae de Deo mundo homine | 439 |
The English Deists and the Traité | 241 |
Sallengre La Monnoye and the Traité des trois imposteurs | 255 |
The politics of a publishing event the Marchand milieu and The life and spirit of Spinoza of 1719 | 273 |
Impostors and Revolution on the Philadelphie 1796 edition of the Traité des trois imposteurs | 297 |
MARCHANDS ARTICLE IMPOSTORIBUS | 475 |
Marchands article IMPOSTORIBUS | 477 |
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