Spinoza and German Idealism
Spinoza and German Idealism
There can be little doubt that without Spinoza, German Idealism would have been just as impossible as it would have been without Kant. Yet the precise nature of Spinoza's influence on the German Idealists has hardly been studied in detail. This volume of essays by leading scholars sheds light on how the appropriation of Spinoza by Fichte, Schelling and Hegel grew out of the reception of his philosophy by, among others, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Jacobi, Herder, Goethe, Schleiermacher, Maimon and, of course, Kant. The volume thus not only illuminates the history of Spinoza's thought, but also initiates a genuine philosophical dialogue between the ideas of Spinoza and those of the German Idealists. The issues at stake - the value of humanity; the possibility and importance of self-negation; the nature and value of reason and imagination; human freedom; teleology; intuitive knowledge; the nature of God - remain of the highest philosophical importance today.
- Traces the reception history of Spinoza's philosophy through key German Idealists
- Discusses the philosophical debt which each of the key German idealists owes to Spinoza
- Brings leading scholars of Early Modern thought and German Idealism into dialogue with each other
Reviews & endorsements
'The breadth of ideas covered in this volume alone make it worthy of attention, and given that they have been so seldom studied in connection with German Idealism, this is an important reference text for scholars in the field … this is a valuable addition to the literature, especially given its focus on an understudied topic.' Henry Southgate, Journal of the History of Philosophy
Product details
July 2015Paperback
9781107538931
298 pages
230 × 154 × 16 mm
0.45kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Rationality, idealism, monism, and beyond Michael Della Rocca
- 2. Kant's idea of the unconditioned and Spinoza's the fourth antinomy and the ideal of pure reason Omri Boehm
- 3. The question is whether a purely apparent person is possible Karl Ameriks
- 4. Herder and Spinoza Michael Forster
- 5. Goethe's Spinozism Eckart Förster
- 6. Fichte on freedom: the Spinozistic background Allen Wood
- 7. Fichte on the consciousness of Spinoza's God Johannes Haag
- 8. Spinoza in Schelling's early conception of intellectual intuition Dalia Nassar
- 9. Schelling's philosophy of identity and Spinoza's ethica more geometrico Michael Vater
- 10. 'Omnis determinatio est negatio' - determination, negation, and self-negation in Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel Yitzhak Y. Melamed
- 11. Thought and metaphysics: Hegel's critical reception of Spinoza Dean Moyar
- 12. Two models of metaphysical inferentialism: Spinoza and Hegel Gunnar Hinricks
- 13. Trendelenburg and Spinoza Fred Beiser
- 14. Replies on behalf of Spinoza Don Garrett.
