Oxford Handbook of Spinoza, The subjunctive between religious contexts

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Author(s): Craig

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From the author of the popular Clinical Chemistry medical student textbook

Oxford Handbook of Spinoza, The subjunctive between religious contextsUntil recently, Spinoza's standing in Anglophone studies of philosophy has been relatively low and has only seemed to confirm Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi's assessment of him as "a dead dog." However, an exuberant outburst of excellent scholarship on Spinoza has of late come to dominate work on early modern philosophy. This resurgence is due in no small part to the recent revival of metaphysics in contemporary philosophy and to the increased appreciation