Spinoza's revelation
Subtitle: religion, democracy, and reason
By: Nancy K. Levene.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Description: "Nancy Levene reinterprets a major early modern philosopher, Benedict de Spinoza - a Jew who was rejected by the Jewish community of his day but whose thought contains, and critiques, both Jewish and Christian ideas. It foregrounds the connection of religion, democracy, and reason, showing that Spinoza's theories of the Bible, the theologico-political, and the philosophical all involve the concepts of equality and sovereignty. Professor Levene argues that Spinoza's concept of revelation is the key to this connection, and above all to Spinoza's view of human power."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: Vera religio; title: Superstition; title: The God of the philosophers; title: Spinoza's God; title: Man is God to man; title: Spinoza's Bible: concerning how it is that "scripture, insofar as it contains the word of God, has come down to us uncorrupted"; title: Why the Bible; title: Prophecy, or revelation; title: Interpretation; title: The Bible and the sacred; title: Politics, law, and the multitude; title: The politics of the multitude; title: Law; title: Obedience; title: Freedom; title: Reason, revelation, and the case of the Hebrews; title: The pacts; title: Election, divine and human; title: The love of God.