Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza: A Study in German Idealism, 1801–1831

by George di Giovanni

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza's metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel's own metaphysics sought to meet the challenges posed by Spinoza's monism, not by disproving monism, but by rendering it moot. In this, di Giovanni argues, Hegel was much closer in spirit to Kant and Fichte than to Schelling. This book will be of interest to students and researchers interested in post-Kantian Idealism, Romanticism, and metaphysics.

Genres: Philosophy

280 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2021

About the author

George di Giovanni is a Professor of Philosophy in the Philosophy Department at McGill University, specializing in German Idealism, Nineteenth Century Philosophy, Phenomenology (Husserl and Merleau-Ponty) and Philosophy of Religion.

Reviews

[Antonia Faccini]

Demasiado interesante. La verdad no tenía tanta claridad sobre el problema del monismo que se filtra a través de Spinoza y Jacobi hasta los sistemas de Fichte, Schelling y Hegel, el único que quizá pudo solucionarlo.