Bunge, Wiep van:
Spinoza and the idea of religious imposture

In: On the end of truth and honesty : Principles and strategies of fraud and deceit in the early modern period / Houdt, Toon Van [e.a.] (Hrsg./Ed.). - Leiden [e.a.] : Brill, 2002: [105]-126. - (Inersections : Interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture ; 2)

Contains bibliography: 126
First edition in the original language: Unter leicht veränderten Titel als/Under slghthly changed title as Chapter Five in: Bunge, Wiep van: Spinoza past and present : essays on Spinoza, spinozism and Spinoza scholarship. - Leiden [e.a.] : Brill, 2012

Literature type: Articles
Language: English
Thematic areas: Philosophy of politics and law, Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Previous history (e.g. Descartes, Stoicism), Contemporaries and context
Subject: TTP

Autopsy: yes
English commentary: The author sketches "some of the ways in which the idea of religious imposture was passed down from the early sixteenth to the early eigtheenth century, concentrating on the particluar place Spinoza occupied in this essentially sceptical tradition" (p. 105), showing "the fundamental difference between Spinoza on the one hand and the libertinage and the clandestine radical enlightenment on the other" (123).

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