Autorentext
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).
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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
Chapter 9.
Conclusion: Freud and Spinoza or how to be mindful of the mind.