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Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine

By Willi Goetschel

Book information

Year
2004
ISBN
9780299190842, 0299190846, 0299190803, 9780299190804, 9780299190835
LCC
B3998 .G63 2004
Open Library ID
OL10317163M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1412093 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
430\363
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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