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Spinoza’s
Modernity
Mendelssohn, Lessing,
and Heine
Willi Goetschel
Studies in German Jewish
Cultural History and Literature
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Series Editor
“An extraordinary work with immense erudition and scholarship
behind it. This has the potential to be a discipline-altering
book.”
—Warren Montag, author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza
and His Contemporaries
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.
Willi Goetschel is associate 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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November 2003
LC: 2003007693 B
430 pp. 6 x 9
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