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- Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
- Series: Studies in German Jewish Cultural History and Literature
summary
Spinoza’s Modernity is a major, original work of intellectual history that reassesses the philosophical project of Baruch Spinoza, uncovers his influence on later thinkers, and demonstrates how that crucial influence on Moses Mendelssohn, G. E. Lessing, and Heinrich Heine shaped the development of modern critical thought. Excommunicated by his Jewish community, Spinoza was a controversial figure in his lifetime and for centuries afterward. Willi Goetschel shows how Spinoza’s philosophy was a direct challenge to the theological and metaphysical assumptions of modern European thought. He locates the driving force of this challenge in Spinoza’s Jewishness, which is deeply inscribed in his philosophy and defines the radical nature of his modernity.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. vii-viii
- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Part 1 Spinoza’s Modernity
- Part 2 Spinoza through Mendelssohn
- CHAPTER 7 The Exchange on Tragedy
- pp. 100-118
- Part 3 Spinoza through Lessing
- CHAPTER 12 Lessing’s Spinozist Exercises
- pp. 183-195
- CHAPTER 13 Toward a New Concept of Truth
- pp. 196-206
- Part 4 Spinoza’s New Place
- Bibliography
- pp. 325-344
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299190835
Related ISBN(s)
9780299190804, 9780299190842
MARC Record
OCLC
162108562
Pages
361
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2004