Spinoza and the specters of modernity : the hidden enlightenment of diversity from Spinoza to Freud / Michael Mack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mack, Michael, 1969-2020, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677--Influence.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, [England] : Continuum, 2010.

Summary:

Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity draws new theoretical conclusions from a study of Spinoza's legacy in the age of Goethe and beyond, largely transmitted through the writings of Herder, that will have implications for the study of German intellectual history and, more broadly, the study of religion and literature. Michael Mack describes how a line of writers and thinkers re-configured Spinoza's ideas and how these ideas thus became effective in society at large. Mack shows that the legacy of Spinoza is important because he was the first thinker to theorize narrative as the constitutive fab

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: SPINOZA'S ALTERNATIVE MODERNITY; 1. DESCARTES, SPINOZA OR THE GOAL THAT DESTROYS ITSELF; 2. SPINOZA'S CONATUS OR THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL SELF-DESTRUCTION; 3. HERDER'S SPINOZIST UNDERSTANDING OF REFLECTION; 4. FROM THE DISSECTION THEATRE TO POPULAR PHILOSOPHY OR HERDER'S SPINOZIST THEOLOGY; 5. FROM THE NATIONAL TO THE TRANSNATIONAL; 6. UNIVERSALISM CONTESTED: HERDER, KANT AND RACE; 7. TALKING HUMANLY WITH THE DEVIL: FROM ROSENZWEIG VIA SPINOZA TO GOETHE'S HOSPITALITY IN FAUST AND IPHIGENIA ON TAURIS

8. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE INSIGNIFICANT: GEORGE ELIOT'S DANIEL DERONDA AND THE LITERATURE OF WEIMAR CLASSICISMCONCLUSION: FREUD, SPINOZA OR HOW TO BE MINDFUL OF THE MIND; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613202239

9781283202237

1283202239

9781441100719

1441100717

OCLC:

741691331