Spinoza in Germany Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century

Spinoza in Germany presents fifteen newly commissioned essays by a distinguished set of international experts examining the legacy and influence of Spinoza on German thought in the long nineteenth century. The focus on Spinoza's influence illuminates both the nature of his philosophical contribution, as well as novel aspects of the philosophical lineage from idealism to Marxism, psychoanalysis, and beyond. The chapters are at the cutting edge of research on modern German thought, not only concerning canonical figures like Herder, Kant, and Marx, but also thinkers whose importance has since been neglected such as Salomon Maimon and Lou Salomé.

1 - Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise and the German Romantic Tradition
2 - The Prophet Between Philosopher and Poet: On Friedrich Schlegel s Interpretation of Spinoza
3 - Spinoza's Hermeneutic Legacy: Interpretation and Emancipation in Herder, Schleiermacher, and Staël
4 - Kant's Anti-Judaism and Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise
5 - Against Ceremonial Law: Spinoza, the Berlin Haskalah, and the Birth of Reform Judaism
6 - The Political Theology of Salomon Maimon
7 - Goethe and Spinoza on Faith, the State, and the Old Testament
8 - Spinoza and the Growing Divide between Radical Enlightenment and Socialism in the German-Jewish Intellectual World of the 1830s and 1840s
9 - David Friedrich Strauss and Spinoza
10 - "To separate faith from philosophy": Schopenhauer s Dialogue with Spinoza
11 - Marx, Spinoza, and True Democracy
12 - How Spinoza Became a Dialectical Materialist: Developments in Organized Social Democracy
13 - Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Moses Hess on Zion
14 - "Let the Historian be a Philosopher!": Hermann Cohen s Methodological Dispute with Spinoza
15 - Lou Salomé on Life, Religion, Self-Development, and Psychoanalysis: The Spinozistic Background

Jason Maurice Yonover is Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. His research concerns issues in political thought, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy, from the medieval through the modern period. Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She works on modern European philosophy. Her monographs include Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (Cambridge, 2009), Herder's Hermeneutics (Cambridge, 2017), and The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (OUP, 2020).