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Part I: Setting the Scene; 1 Introduction; 2 Unparalleled Challenge; Part II: The Young Spinoza; 3 Youthful Rebel; 4 Secret Legacy from Portugal; 5 Childhood and Family Tradition; 6 Schooldays; 7 Honour and Wealth; 8 Teaching Skills: Van den Enden (1656-1661), Latin, and the Theatre; 9 Collegiants, Millenarians, and Quakers: the Mid- and Late 1650s; 10 ’Monstrous Heresies’: Ties with Marrano Deists; Part III: Reformer and Subverter of Descartes; 11 Forming a Study Group; 12 Rijnsburg Years (1661-63); 13 Spinoza and the Scientific Revolution; 14 ’Reforming’ Descartes’ Principles; 15 Writing the Ethics; 16 Voorburg; 17 Spinoza and the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1664-1667); 18 Invasion, Slump, and Comets (1665-66); 19 Spinoza, Meyer, and The 1666 Philosophia Controversy; 20 From the Jaws of Defeat; Part IV: Darkening Horizons; 21 The Tragedy of the Brothers Koerbagh (1668-1669); 22 Nil Volentibus Arduum: Spinoza and the Arts; 23 Twilight of the ’True Freedom’; 24 Revolution in Bible Criticism; 25 Spinoza Subverts Hobbes; 26 Publishing the Theological-Political Treatise; 27 Intensifying Reaction (early 1670s); 28 Spinoza’s Libertine ’French Circle’; 29 Reshaping the Republic: from Oligarchic to Democratic Republicanism; Part V: Last Years; 30 Disaster Year (1672); 31 Denying the Supernatural; 32 Entering (or Not Entering) Princely Court Culture (1672-73); 33 Creeping Diffusion; 34 Mysterious Trip to Utrecht (July-August 1673); 35 Expanding the ’Spinozist Sect’; 36 Amsterdam Revisited (1673-75); 37 Hebrew in Spinoza’s Later Life; 38 Encounter with Leibniz (1676); 39 Fighting Back; 40 Last Days, Death, and Funeral (1677); 41 A Stormy Aftermath; 42 Conclusion: Philosophy integrated with Bible Critique and Political Theory

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