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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