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).