Spinoza and Republicanism

RAIA PROKHOVNIK is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the Open University, UK. Her previous publications include Rhetoric and Philosophy in Hobbes's Leviathan (1991), and Rational Woman: A Feminist Critique of Dichotomy (2nd edition 2002).

• Introduction The Revolt The Dutch Republic De Witt's Republicanism English and Dutch Republicanism Dutch Republicanism Spinoza's Dutch Perspective Liberty and Sovereignty in the Political Works Spinoza's Republicanism Epilogue Bibliography

'... Spinoza and Republicanism makes an important contribution in illuminating the way Dutch political culture ws also Spinoza's.' - Anne Oravetz Albert, Hebraic Political Studies