Spinoza in Germany Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century

Spinoza in Germany presents fifteen newly commissioned essays by a distinguished set of international experts examining the legacy and influence of Spinoza on German thought in the long nineteenth century. The focus on Spinoza's influence illuminates both the nature of his philosophical contribution, as well as novel aspects of the philosophical lineage from idealism to Marxism, psychoanalysis, and beyond. The chapters are at the cutting edge of research on modern German thought, not only concerning canonical figures like Herder, Kant, and Marx, but also thinkers whose importance has since been neglected such as Salomon Maimon and Lou Salomé.

Jason Maurice Yonover, Princeton University,Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University

Jason Maurice Yonover is Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate and Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. His research concerns issues in political thought, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy, from the medieval through the modern period.

Kristin Gjesdal is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. She works on modern European philosophy. Her monographs include Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (Cambridge, 2009), Herder's Hermeneutics (Cambridge, 2017), and The Drama of History: Ibsen, Hegel, Nietzsche (OUP, 2020).

Introduction, Jason M. Yonover and Kristin Gjesdal1. Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise and the German Romantic Tradition, Michael N. Forster2. The Prophet Between Philosopher and Poet: On Friedrich Schlegel s Interpretation of Spinoza, Michael Rosenthal3. Spinoza's Hermeneutic Legacy: Interpretation and Emancipation in Herder, Schleiermacher, and Staël, Kristin Gjesdal4. Kant's Anti-Judaism and Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise, Yoav Schaefer5. Against Ceremonial Law: Spinoza, the Berlin Haskalah, and the Birth of Reform Judaism, Michah Gottlieb6. The Political Theology of Salomon Maimon, Yitzhak Y. Melamed7. Goethe and Spinoza on Faith, the State, and the Old Testament, Martin Bollacher8. Spinoza and the Growing Divide between Radical Enlightenment and Socialism in the German-Jewish Intellectual World of the 1830s and 1840s, Jonathan Israel9. David Friedrich Strau� and Spinoza on the Bible and Biblical Interpretation, Frederick Beiser10. "To separate faith from philosophy": Schopenhauer s Dialogue with Spinoza, Sandra Shapshay and Dennis Vanden Auweele11. Marx, Spinoza, and True Democracy, Sandra Leonie Field12. How Spinoza Became a Dialectical Materialist: Developments in Organized Social Democracy, Tracie Matysik13. Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Moses Hess on Zion, Warren Zev Harvey14. "Let the Historian be a Philosopher!": Hermann Cohen s Methodological Dispute with Spinoza, Shira Billet15. Lou Salomé on Life, Religion, Self-Development, and Psychoanalysis: The Spinozistic Background, Katharina Kraus