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Published surreptitiously in 1670, Spinoza’s Theologico-Political Treatise transformed early modern Europe, destabilisin......more

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The contemporaries of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743-1819) openly acknowledged his towering importance. Both Fichte and......more

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Aaron Turner is Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Knapp Fellow at the Knapp Foundation. H......more

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Critical junctures in the historical development of science owe their origins to ideas, concepts, and theories that beca......more

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