Spinoza and Republicanism

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-20

3. The Revolt

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4. The Dutch Republic

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5. De Witt’s Republicanism

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6. English and Dutch Republicanism

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   Pages 117-153

7. Dutch Republicanism

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8. Spinoza’s Dutch Perspective

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9. Liberty and Sovereignty in the Political Works

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10. Spinoza’s Republicanism

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11. Epilogue

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12. Back Matter

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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.

• liberty
• political theory
• politics
• sovereignty

'... Spinoza and Republicanism makes an important contribution in illuminating the way Dutch political culture ws also Spinoza's.' - Anne Oravetz Albert, Hebraic Political Studies

• Department of Politics and Government, Open University, UK

  Raia Prokhovnik

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).

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