Van Bunge Wiep. From Bayle to the Batavian Revolution: Essays on Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic

Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. — 388 p. — (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume: 291) — ISBN-13: 978-9004359550.This book is an attempt to assess the part played by philosophy in the eighteenth-century Dutch Enlightenment. Following Bayle's death and the demise of the radical Enlightenment, Dutch philosophers soon embraced Newtonianism and by the second half of the century Wolffianism also started to spread among Dutch academics. Once the Republic started to crumble, Dutch enlightened discourse took a political turn, but with the exception of Frans Hemsterhuis, who chose to ignore the political crisis, it failed to produce original philosophers. By the end of the century, the majority of Dutch philosophers typically refused to embrace Kant's transcendental project as well as his cosmopolitanism. Instead, early nineteenth-century Dutch professors of philosophy preferred to cultivate their joint admiration for the Ancients.Introduction: the Exception of the Dutch Enlightenment

Bayle’s Scepticism RevisitedThe Dutch Refuge between Golden Age and Dutch Enlightenment
The Bayle Enigma
Bayle on Toleration
Bayle’s Scepticism
Bayle’s ‘Pyrrhonism’Bayle and Erasmus: the Politics of AppropriationErasmus of Rotterdam
Bayle on Erasmus
Erasmus and Bayle in the Republic of LettersBayle’s Presence in the Dutch RepublicBayle among the Dutch
Justus van Effen and Bernard Mandeville
A Sceptical Crisis in the Dutch Republic?
Aftermath
Justus van Effen on Reason and VirtueModerate?
De Hollandsche SpectatorDutch Cartesianism and the Advent of NewtonianismVoltaire versus Descartes
Dutch Cartesianism and Newtonianism
Burchard de Volder
Cartesian ‘Rationalism’
Balthasar Bekker’s Cartesianism
Bekker on Traces and TestimonyThe Waning of the Radical Enlightenment and the Rise of DutchNewtonianism
The Second Stadholderless Period
Isaac Newton
Early Dutch Newtonianism
Physico-Theology
Newtonians at Leiden and Utrecht
The Return of Rationalism
The Restoration of the Stadholderate
Wolffians at Groningen and Franeker
Wolffian Natural Law
The Rule of ReasonFrans Hemsterhuis: the Philosopher as Escape Artist‘Frisian Socrates’
Hemsterhuis and Rousseau
Hemsterhuis and Winckelmann
Conclusion: Frans Hemsterhuis and the Dutch EnlightenmentThe Batavian RevolutionAan het volk van Nederland
The Orangist Response
Revolution
Philosophy?
A Failure to Launch: Dutch KantianismTolerating Turks? Perceptions of Islam in the Dutch RepublicDutch Diversity
Pirates and Pilgrims
Playwrights and Professors
A Radical AlternativeThe Rise and Fall of Dutch CosmopolitanismDutch Proto-Cosmopolitanism
The Recovery of a Moral Imperative
Defining Dutch Philosophy and the Limits of EnlightenmentEighteenth-Century Censorship of PhilosophySilencing the Radicals
Post
Fighting Off ForeignersSpinoza’s Life: 1677-1802The Sources
Toland to Voltaire on the Virtuous Atheist
Wolff to Jacobi and Stijl to Collot d’EscuryBibliography
Index