Spinoza's Modernity - Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine

Informationen zum Autor Willi Goetschel is professor of German and philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Constituting Critique: Kant's Writing as Critical . Klappentext "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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Willi Goetschel
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.10.2004
• EAN: 9780299190842
• ISBN: 978-0-299-19084-2
• No. of pages: 351
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Studies in German Jewish Cultu; Studies in German Jewish Cultural History & Literature; Print on Demand; Studies in German Jewish Cultural History & Literature; Studies in German Jewish Cultu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day