Acknowledgments
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Introduction
>Spinoza' alternative modernity
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Chapter 1.
>Descartes, Spinoza or the goal that destroys itself.
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Chapter 2.
>Spinoza's conatus or the critique of political self-destruction
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Chapter 3.
>Herder's Spinozist understanding of Reflection
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Chapter 4.
>From the Dissection theatre to popular philosophy or Herder's Spinozist
theology
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Chapter 5.
>From the National to the Transnational
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Chapter 6.
>Universalism contested: Herder, Kant and Race
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Chapter 7.
>Talking Humanly with the Devil: From Rosenzweig via Spinoza to Goethe's
hospitality in Faust and Iphigenia on Tauris
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Chapter 8.
>The Significance of the Insignificant: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and
the Literature of Weimar Classicism
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Chapter 9.
>Conclusion: Freud and Spinoza or how to be mindful of the mind.