Berti, Silvia; Charles-Daubert, Françoise; Popkin, Richard H. (Hrsg./Ed.):
Heterodoxy, Spinozism, and Free Thought in Early-Eighteenth Century Europe : Studies on the 'Traité des Trois Imposteurs'

Berti, Silvia; Charles-Daubert, Françoise; Popkin, Richard H. (Hrsg./Ed.)

Berlin [e.a.] : Springer, 1996. - XIX, 524 pp. - (International Archive of the History of Ideas/Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 148).

Works contained: Beiträge mit bedeutenden Spinoza-Bezügen/Contributions with important Spinoza references: Berti, Silvia ; Charles-Daubert, Françoise ; Festa, Roberto ; Maia Neto, José R. ; Shelfold, April G. ; Schwarzbach, Bertram Eugene; Fairbairn, A. W.
Other editions / translations: Erneut/Again: 2010 EBook

Literature type: Edited collections
Language: English
Thematic areas: Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Contemporaries and context
Subject (individuals): Hobbes, Thomas ; La Mothe Le Vayer, François de ; Laudé, Gabriel

Reviews: Schröder, Winfried (1996)

English commentary: The 'Traité des Trois Imposteurs, ou l'Esprit de M. Spinosa' is a most notorious clandestine work that was circulating throughout Europe in the 18th Century. The work is a pastiche of passages from Hobbes, Naudé, La Mothe Le Vayer, Spinoza and others, contending that Moses, Jesus and Mohammed were imposters who set up their religions for political reasons. In 1990 a research seminar on the origins, nature, meaning and dispersion of the text was held under the direction of Richard H. Popkin. This volume contains the results of the seminar.

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