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Space, Time and Stuff. By Frank Arntzenius. Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 304, £30. ISBN: 978-0-19-969660-4

superstition; but he did not denigrate religion. He rejected the supernatural; and he argued against the encroachment of the authority of the theologians on philosophy and on political life. Yet, like many later Enlightenment thinkers, he aimed to accommodate religion – not to destroy it. He defended affects associated with the more positive religious attitudes towards shared humanity, and towards the natural world – joy, love, generosity, awe – developing his own treatment of their role in the good life, and of the conditions of their flourishing. Whatever one thinks of James’s stance on Spinoza’s ‘piety’, this book offers an illuminating and significant contribution to the understanding of his Theologico-Political Treatise in its historical and intellectual context. Her treatment of the background to his thought in classical humanist ideals of the well lived life is particularly impressive. Her book is essential reading – not only for those already interested in Spinoza, but also for all who wish to understand the interactions of philosophy, religion and politics in the intellectual history of modernity.