Books written by Mogens Lærke

  • Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing

    Moreover , it also suggests that we should take that preceding passage as something that , for Spinoza , could be described ... But it is still akin to it and the two distinct conceptions of freedom in the TTP and in the Ethics subtly ...

  • Steno and the Philosophers

    An account of the life and works of the Danish scientist and theologian Nicolas Steno (1638-1686), who played a crucial role in the intellectual networks amongst philosophers and natural scientists in the late seventeenth century.

  • The Use of Censorship in the Enlightenment

    The ambition is of this volume to study the role censorship played in the intellectual culture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, how it was implemented, and how it affected the development philosophy and literary writing.

  • Philosophy and Its History: Aims and Methods in the Study of Early Modern Philosophy

    This volume collects contributions from leading scholars of early modern philosophy from a wide variety of philosophical and geographic backgrounds.

  • Spinoza and the Freedom of Philosophizing

    The book argues that Spinoza's conception of the freedom of philosophizing, and the systematic political theory he developed to defend it in his 1670 Theological-Political Treatise, were conceived to provide just such guidelines.