Elegantly constructed and written, Laerke's study is well worth reading and rereading as a major contribution to the lively area of Spinoza scholarship.
Mogens Laerke is Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), a fellow at the Maison Fran,caise d'Oxford (MFO), and member of the research institute IHRIM at the 'Ecole Normale Sup'erieure de Lyon. A specialist in early modern philosophy, notably Leibniz and Spinoza, he has published widely on early modern metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. He is the managing editor of the BSHP New Texts in the History of Philosophy series from Oxford University Press.