Spinoza and German Idealism [Paperback]

An extensive examination of the profound impact of Spinoza's philosophy on the German Idealists.Without Spinoza, German Idealism would have been as impossible as it would have been without Kant. This volume traces the reception history of Spinoza's philosophy and initiates a genuine philosophical dialogue between his ideas and those of German Idealists. For scholars of early modern philosophy and history of philosophy.Without Spinoza, German Idealism would have been as impossible as it would have been without Kant. This volume traces the reception history of Spinoza's philosophy and initiates a genuine philosophical dialogue between his ideas and those of German Idealists. For scholars of early modern philosophy and history of philosophy.There can be little doubt that without Spinoza, German Idealism would have been just as impossible as it would have been without Kant. Yet the precise nature of Spinoza's influence on the German Idealists has hardly been studied in detail. This volume of essays by leading scholars sheds light on how the appropriation of Spinoza by Fichte, Schelling and Hegel grew out of the reception of his philosophy by, among others, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Jacobi, Herder, Goethe, Schleiermacher, Maimon and, of course, Kant. The volume thus not only illuminates the history of Spinoza's thought, but also initiates a genuine philosophical dialogue between the ideas of Spinoza and those of the German Idealists. The issues at stake  the value of humanity; the possibility and importance of self-negation; the nature and value of reason and imagination; human freedom; teleology; intuitive knowledge; the nature of God  remain of the highest philosophical importance today.1. Rationality, idealism, monism, and beyond Michael Della Rocca; 2. Kant's idea of the unconditioned and Spinoza's the fourth antinomy and the ideal of pure reason Omri Boehm; 3. The question is whether a purely apparent person is possible Karl Ameriks; 4. Herder and Spinoza Michael Forslc2