Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity
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Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity

The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud

  1. 232 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity

The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud

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An original and broad-ranging reassessment of Spinoza's intellectual legacy.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. INTRODUCTION: SPINOZA’S ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY
  4. 1. DESCARTES, SPINOZA OR THE GOAL THAT DESTROYS ITSELF
  5. 2. SPINOZA’S CONATUS OR THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL SELF-DESTRUCTION
  6. 3. HERDER’S SPINOZIST UNDERSTANDING OF REFLECTION
  7. 4. FROM THE DISSECTION THEATRE TO POPULAR PHILOSOPHY OR HERDER’S SPINOZIST THEOLOGY
  8. 5. FROM THE NATIONAL TO THE TRANSNATIONAL
  9. 6. UNIVERSALISM CONTESTED: HERDER, KANT AND RACE
  10. 7. TALKING HUMANLY WITH THE DEVIL: FROM ROSENZWEIG VIA SPINOZA TO GOETHE’S HOSPITALITY IN FAUST AND IPHIGENIA ON TAURIS
  11. 8. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INSIGNIFICANT: GEORGE ELIOT’S DANIEL DERONDA AND THE LITERATURE OF WEIMAR CLASSICISM
  12. CONCLUSION: FREUD, SPINOZA OR HOW TO BE MINDFUL OF THE MIND
  13. Index