Michael Mack

Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441100719
• Artikelnr.: 48422054

Autorenporträt

Michael Mack (PhD. Cambridge) is Reader in English Literature and Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK. Formerly he has been a Visiting Professor at Syracuse University, a Fellow at the University of Sydney, and lecturer and research fellow at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity (Continuum, 2010), German Idealism and the Jew (University of Chicago Press, 2003), which was shortlisted for The Koret Jewish Book Award 2004, and Anthropology as Memory (Niemeyer, 2001, Conditio Judaica Series).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
>
Introduction
>Spinoza' alternative modernity
>
Chapter 1.
>Descartes, Spinoza or the goal that destroys itself.
>
Chapter 2.
>Spinoza's conatus or the critique of political self-destruction
>
Chapter 3.
>Herder's Spinozist understanding of Reflection
>
Chapter 4.
>From the Dissection theatre to popular philosophy or Herder's Spinozist
theology
>
Chapter 5.
>From the National to the Transnational
>
Chapter 6.
>Universalism contested: Herder, Kant and Race
>
Chapter 7.
>Talking Humanly with the Devil: From Rosenzweig via Spinoza to Goethe's
hospitality in Faust and Iphigenia on Tauris
>
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.