Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud

by Michael Mack

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441118721
• ISBN13: 9781441118721
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"