The Sovereign and the Prophets - Spinoza on Grotian and Hobbesian Biblical Argumentation

Tracing Old Testament topics recurrent in Grotian and Hobbesian discourses on the church-state relationship, Atsuko Fukuoka recontextualizes Spinoza's Theologico-political Treatise and clarifies its historical import for Dutch debates on religion, state power, and liberty.

About the author

Atsuko Fukuoka, Ph.D. in Law, Goethe University Frankfurt (2014), is associate professor of Constitutional Law at the Department of Advanced Social and International Studies, University of Tokyo.

Product details

• Authors: Atsuko Fukuoka
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2018
• EAN: 9789004322080
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32208-0
• No. of pages: 444
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 771 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education