"Mara van der Lugt is lecturer in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, where she specializes in early modern intellectual history and philosophy. She is the author of Bayle, Jurieu, and the ""Dictionnaire Historique et Critique."""
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021 Van der Lugt succeeds brilliantly in her aim of setting aside the arid technical disputes in which philosophy often seems (at leas to the layman) to be enmeshed, and applying it with compelling urgency to perennial and fundamental moral questions ---Ritchie Robertson, Times Literary Supplement This is a highly readable, elegantly written and sophisticated study that even non-philosophers will find accessible and illuminating, and perhaps also inspiring. ---Steven Nadler, Literary Review