SPINOZA AND THE RISE OF LIBERALISM

Feuer, Lewis Samuel

Published by Beacon Hill Boston. 1958. Beacon Press

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red, white & black illustrated trade paperback soft cover 8vo. fine cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. couple of tiny cover spots. bottom front corner a little rubbed. edges yellow with age but clean. brown spots inside front cover, otherwise contents free of markings. first edition. first printing (NAP) of this edition. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. x+323p. endnotes. index. biography. philosophy. religion. history of europe. ~ A thinker can be understood only as we relive his experiences. Spinoza's philosophy was wrought in a time such as ours ~ one of crisis. The seventeenth century was an age of war, revolution, and social unrest. Cromwell, the Thirty Years' War, the Levellers, the Quakers, the Catholic Inquisition in Spain: these were part of the world in which Spinoza lived. Liberalism was being born in the merchants' republics of his native Netherlands. Spinoza struggled to understand the crisis of his time. Like political philosophers in the twentieth century, he found that events did violence to his political theories. He was proud of Amsterdam's liberalism, and hopeful that the Dutch Republican experiment would succeed. When political catastrophe came in 1672, Spinoza brooded upon the incapacity of the masses to sustain a liberal government.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: SPINOZA AND THE RISE OF LIBERALISM
• Publisher: Beacon Hill Boston. 1958. Beacon Press
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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