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Spinoza in Germany presents fifteen newly commissioned essays examining the legacy and influence of Spinoza on German thought in the long nineteenth century. The volume illuminates both the nature of Spinoza's philosophical contribution, as well as novel aspects of the philosophical lineage from idealism to Marxism, psychoanalysis, and beyond.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Michael N. Forster: Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise and the German Romantic Tradition
- 2: Michael Rosenthal: The Prophet Between Philosopher and Poet: On Friedrich Schlegel s Interpretation of Spinoza
- 3: Kristin Gjesdal: Spinoza's Hermeneutic Legacy: Interpretation and Emancipation in Herder, Schleiermacher, and Staël
- 4: Yoav Schaefer: Kant's Anti-Judaism and Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
- 5: Michah Gottlieb: Against Ceremonial Law: Spinoza, the Berlin Haskalah, and the Birth of Reform Judaism
- 6: Yitzhak Y. Melamed: The Political Theology of Salomon Maimon
- 7: Martin Bollacher: Goethe and Spinoza on Faith, the State, and the Old Testament
- 8: Jonathan Israel: Spinoza and the Growing Divide between Radical Enlightenment and Socialism in the German-Jewish Intellectual World of the 1830s and 1840s
- 9: Frederick Beiser: David Friedrich Strauss and Spinoza
- 10: Sandra Shapshay and Dennis Vanden Auweele: "To separate faith from philosophy": Schopenhauer s Dialogue with Spinoza
- 11: Sandra Leonie Field: Marx, Spinoza, and True Democracy
- 12: Tracie Matysik: How Spinoza Became a Dialectical Materialist: Developments in Organized Social Democracy
- 13: Warren Zev Harvey: Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Moses Hess on Zion
- 14: Shira Billet: "Let the Historian be a Philosopher!": Hermann Cohen s Methodological Dispute with Spinoza
- 15: Katharina Kraus: Lou Salomé on Life, Religion, Self-Development, and Psychoanalysis: The Spinozistic Background
About the author
Jason Maurice Yonover is Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. His research concerns issues in political thought, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy, from the medieval through the modern period.
Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She works on modern European philosophy. Her monographs include Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (Cambridge, 2009), Herder's Hermeneutics (Cambridge, 2017), and The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (OUP, 2020).
Summary
Spinoza in Germany presents fifteen newly commissioned essays examining the legacy and influence of Spinoza on German thought in the long nineteenth century. The volume illuminates both the nature of Spinoza's philosophical contribution, as well as novel aspects of the philosophical lineage from idealism to Marxism, psychoanalysis, and beyond.
