Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud 1st Edition by Michael Mack ISBN 1441173447 9781441173447

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ISBN 10: 1441173447

ISBN 13: 9781441173447 

Author: Michael Mack 

“Spinoza and the Specters of Modernity: The Hidden Enlightenment of Diversity from Spinoza to Freud” by Michael Mack is a scholarly work that reinterprets Baruch Spinoza’s philosophical legacy, positioning him as a foundational figure in an alternative tradition of modernity. Mack contends that Spinoza’s ideas—particularly his naturalistic worldview, critique of dualisms, and emphasis on narrative—have profoundly influenced thinkers such as Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Eliot, and Sigmund Freud, contributing to a more inclusive and non-hierarchical understanding of human diversity.

The book challenges conventional Enlightenment narratives by highlighting Spinoza’s rejection of teleological thinking and his advocacy for a politics of difference. Mack’s analysis underscores the significance of narrative as a central element in shaping politics, identity, and culture, offering a critique of Kantian and Hegelian frameworks that often marginalize diversity. Through this lens, Mack presents Spinoza as a precursor to a modernity that embraces multiplicity and resists ideological uniformity.

This interdisciplinary study is particularly valuable for scholars in philosophy, literature, political theory, and religious studies, providing a nuanced perspective on the development of modern thought and its implications for contemporary debates on diversity and inclusion.

Table of contents:

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

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