Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299190842)

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: Willi Goetschel
ISBN-10: 0299190846
ISBN-13: 9780299190842
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 10/07/2004
Pages: 351
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.80d