| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 222 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction: Spinoza' alternative modernity --- 1. Descartes, Spinoza or the goal that destroys itself --- 2. Spinoza's conatus or the critique of political self-destruction --- 3. Herder's Spinozist understanding of Reflection --- 4. From the Dissection theatre to popular philosophy or Herder's Spinozist theology --- 5. From the National to the Transnational --- 6. Universalism contested: Herder, Kant and Race --- 7. Talking Humanly with the Devil: From Rosenzweig via Spinoza to Goethe's hospitality in Faust and Iphigenia on Tauris --- 8. The Significance of the Insignificant: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Literature of Weimar Classicism --- 9. Conclusion: Freud and Spinoza or how to be mindful of the mind |
| Summary |
"Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity draws new theoretical conclusions from a study of Spinoza's legacy in the age of Goethe and beyond, largely transmitted through the writings of Herder, that will have implications for the study of German intellectual history and, more broadly, the study of religion and literature. Michael Mack describes how a line of writers and thinkers re-configured Spinoza's ideas and how these ideas thus became effective in society at large. Mack shows that the legacy of Spinoza is important because he was the first thinker to theorize narrative as the constitutive fabric of politics, identity, society, religion and the larger sphere of culture. Indeed, Mack argues for Spinoza's writings on politics and ethics as an alternative to a Kantian conception of modernity."--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 fast |
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Spinoza, Baruch - influence exercée. rero |
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Spinoza, Benedictus ((de)) swd |
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Aufklärung
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Rezeption
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Spinozismus
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781441100719 |
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1441100717 |
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