Overview
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.
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Author: Eckart Förster (The Johns Hopkins University) ,
Yitzhak Y. Melamed (The Johns Hopkins University)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 1.60cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.450kg
ISBN: 9781107538931
ISBN 10: 1107538939
Pages: 298
Publication Date: 09 July 2015
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Professional and scholarly
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
'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
'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 ...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... --Henry Southgate, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Journal of the History of Philosophy
Author Information
Eckart Förster is Professor of Philosophy, German and the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University and Honorary Professor of Philosophy at the Humboldt Universität, Berlin. His most recent publications include The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy (2012) and Kant's Final Synthesis (2000). Yitzhak Y. Melamed is Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics of Substance and Thought (forthcoming) and co-editor, with Michael A. Rosenthal, of Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise (2010).
