Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine - Couverture souple

Goetschel, Willi

 
9780299190842: Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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9780299190804: Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine

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ISBN 10 :  0299190803 ISBN 13 :  9780299190804
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2003
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