Synopses & Reviews
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Synopsis
An original and broad-ranging reassessment of Spinoza's intellectual legacy.
Synopsis
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments IntroductionSpinoza' alternative modernityChapter 1.Descartes, Spinoza or the goal that destroys itself.Chapter 2.Spinoza's conatus or the critique of political self-destructionChapter 3.Herder's Spinozist understanding of ReflectionChapter 4.From the Dissection theatre to popular philosophy or Herder's Spinozist theologyChapter 5.From the National to the TransnationalChapter 6.Universalism contested: Herder, Kant and RaceChapter 7.Talking Humanly with the Devil: From Rosenzweig via Spinoza to Goethe's hospitality in Faust and Iphigenia on TaurisChapter 8.The Significance of the Insignificant: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Literature of Weimar ClassicismChapter 9. Conclusion: Freud and Spinoza or how to be mindful of the mind.