Dutch republicanism represents a crucially important context within which to discuss Spinoza's political theory and his conception of politics. Spinoza and Republicanism provides an important account of his key political concepts, as well as a fresh and stimulating perspective on the links between Spinoza's two political works and contemporaneous debate and traditions. By identifying the distinctiveness of Dutch republicanism and Spinoza's contribution to it, Raia Prokhovnik also throws new light on recent discussions of republicanism and its history.

Autorentext

RAIA PROKHOVNIK is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University, UK. Her previous publications include Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes's Leviathan (1991), and Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy (2nd edition 2002).

Zusammenfassung
Seventeenth-century Dutch political practice and thought, and in particular Dutch republicanism, set against the background of its history and political traditions, represents a crucially important context within which to discuss Spinoza's political theory and his conception of politics. The meaning of Spinoza's republicanism in the context of his engagement with political debate in the United Provinces has not previously been so fully analysed. Geared towards an English-speaking audience for whom Spinoza's political theory is not widely known, Spinoza and Republicanism provides an important account of his key political concepts, as well as a fresh and stimulating perspective on the links between Spinoza's two political works and contemporaneous debate and traditions. By identifying the distinctiveness of Dutch republicanism and Spinoza's contribution to it, Raia Prokhovnik also throws new light on recent discussions of republicanism and its history.

Inhalt

Introduction The Revolt The Dutch Republic De Witt's Republicanism English and Dutch Republicanism Dutch Republicanism Spinoza's Dutch Perspective Liberty and Sovereignty in the Political Works Spinoza's Republicanism Epilogue Bibliography