Spinoza and the specters of modernity : the hidden enlightenment of diversity from Spinoza to Freud / Michael Mack

Author:: Mack, Michael, 1969-
Published:: New York : Continuum, [2010]
Copyright Date:: ©2010
Physical Description:: viii, 222 pages ; 25 cm

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Contents:

Introduction. Spinozas Alternative Modernity -- Descartes, Spinoza Or the Goal That Destroys Itself -- 1. Introduction: Spinoza and the Critique of Hierarchy -- 2. Spinoza's Critique of an Absolutist Epistemology -- 3. The Theological Foundations of Teleological Thought -- Spinoza's Conatus Or the Critique of Political Self-Destruction -- 1. Spinoza's Critique of Theology as Teleology -- 2. Voluntarism as the Autoimmunity of Teleology -- 3. Conclusion: Communality as the Eternity of the Soul -- Herder's Spinozist Understanding of Reflection -- 1. Herder's Ethics of Difference -- 2. Herder's Hermeneutics -- 3. Historiography as Reflection upon the Senses -- 4. Herder's Non-uniform Universalism -- From the Dissection Theatre to Popular Philosophy Or Herder's Spinozist Theology -- 1. Friedrich Meinecke's Critique of Herder's Romanticism -- 2. Herder's Theology: Teleology that Outdoes Itself -- 3. From Medicine to Theology and Philosophy -- 4. Herder's Critique of Leibniz's and Kant's Academic Philosophy (Schulphilosophie) -- From the National to the Transnational -- 1. Herder's Ironic Usage of Prejudice in This Too a Philosophy of History -- 2. Herder's Spinozist Journeys to France -- Universalism Contested: Herder, Kant and Race -- Talking Humanly With the Devil: From Rosenzweig Via Spinoza to Goethe's Hospitality in Faust and Iphigenia on Tauris -- 1. Rosenzweig's New Thinking and Goethe's Spinozist Paganism -- 2. Goethe's Moses and the Spinozist Literature of the Desert -- 3. Goethe's Sense of Selfhood and Spinoza's Notion of Self-Preservation (conatus) -- 4. From Spinoza' Intellectual Love of God to Goethe's Religion of Love -- 5. Faust's Anthropomorphism or the Deed Which is Scriptural -- 6. Talking Humanly with the Devil: From Faust to Iphigenia -- 7. Goethe's lphigenia and the Equality of Athens and Jerusalem -- The Significance of the Insignificant: George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and the Literature of Weimar Classicism -- 1. Introduction: Spinoza, the Literature of Weimar Classicism, and how Eliot Distinguishes Morality from Ideology -- 2. The Legacy of Spinoza and the "Immoral Literature" of Goethe -- 3. Herder's Historical Reason and Deronda's Poetics of the Everyday -- 4. The Intertextuality of the Tasso Motive -- 5. Goethe's Iphigenia and the Equality of Athens and Jerusalem -- Conclusion: Freud, Spinoza Or How to Be Mindful of the Mind -- 1. Overview of the Discussion so Far -- 2. Freud's Spinozist New Science -- 3. The Death Drive as Foundation of Life or Herder's and Goethe's Ontological Negativity -- 4. Freud's Spinozist Critique of Theology and Philosophy -- 5. Psychoanalysis or Ethics Beyond the Salvation Principle -- 6. Salvation Narratives or the Resistance to being Mindful of the Mind.

Subject(s):

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677—Influence

ISBN:

9781441173447 (hbk.)
1441173447 (hbk.)
9781441118721 (pbk.)
1441118721 (pbk.)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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