ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.

REVIEWS

"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

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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments	000
List of Abbreviations	000
Introduction: The Scandal of Spinoza's Jewishness	000
1. Spinoza's Modernity
1	The New Metaphysical Framework of Ontology	000
2	Understanding Understanding: Spinoza's Epistemology	000
3	A Psychodynamic Theory of Affects	000
4	Spinoza's Theory of Religion, Hermeneutics, and Tradition	000
5	A Non-Contractual Theory of the Political Order	000
2. Spinoza through Mendelssohn
6	From the Margins of Philosophy: Mendelssohn's Esthetic Theory of Mixed Sentiments	000
7	The Exchange on Tragedy	000
8	Staking out Grounds for Public Reason	000
9	Framing Political Rights: Mendelssohn's Introduction to Manasseh Ben Israel's Rescue of the Jews	000
10	An Alternative Universalism: Jerusalem or on Religious Power and Judaism	000
11	Rescuing Lessing: Mendelssohn's Morgenstunden	000
3. Spinoza through Lessing
12	Lessing's "Spinozistic Exercises"	000
13	Towards a New Concept of Truth	000
14	The Secret of the Public: The Dialogues on Freemasonry "Ernst and Falk"	000
15	Theorizing the Enlightenment: Spinoza in the Education of Mankind	000
16	Negotiating Truth: On Nathan's Business	000
4. Spinoza's New Place
17	Heine's Dis/Enchantment of Hegel's History of Philosophy	000
18	Tradition as Innovation in Heine's "Jehuda ben Halevy": Counter-History in a Spinozist Key	000
Notes	000
Bibliography	000
Index	000 
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677, Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 Influence, Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786, Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781, Heine, Heinrich, 1797-1856, Enlightenment, Philosophy, Jewish

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