Spinoza Conversations Between Lessing and Jacobi : Text With Excerpts from the Ensuing Controversy

Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich (EDT); Lawson, James B.; Chapple, C. G. (TRN); Vallee, Gerard; Mendelssohn, Moses (EDT); Vallee, Gerard (EDT); Scholz, Heinrich (EDT)

ISBN 10: 081917016X / ISBN 13: 9780819170163

Published by University Press Of America, 1988

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spinoza Conversations Between Lessing and Jacobi : Text With Excerpts from the Ensuing Controversy
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081917016X
• ISBN 13: 9780819170163
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Lessing's Spinozism looms up out of the numerous intellectual riddles of the past. Almost everything has been tried in an effort to sound and weigh the exact amount of Spinozism Lessing betrayed in his conversations with Jacobi. This volume contains in translation the main writings relative to the famous 'pantheism debate' between Jacobi and Mendelssohn, which was prompted by Jacobi's revelation of the Spinozist leanings of the late Lessing. The Introduction provides the context of the debate and draws upon recent studies of 'Lessing's Spinozism' in an attempt to unravel the murky question of Lessing's philosophical legacy. Co-published with McMaster University

Review

...this book is worth having.--Dialogue

...an essential document...--George di Giovanni, McGill University, MontrČal "Dialogue "