Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Laurentiis, Allegra de | Platt, Andrew | Edwards, Jeffrey | Houlgate, Stephen.
Date
2016-12-01
Keywords
Philosophy | Hegel, Spinoza
Department
Department of Philosophy
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/76598
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This dissertation seeks to trace Hegel’s shifting attitudes towards Spinoza, and its significance for later interpretations of the Hegel-Spinoza relationship. In contrast to virtually all other approaches, it will be argued that Hegel’s earlier defense of Spinoza in Faith and Knowledge (1802) was superior to Hegel’s interpretation of Spinoza shaped after his break with Schelling. There is precious little in the Anglophone literature that compares and contrasts the approaches of the young and “mature†Hegel regarding Spinoza’s metaphysics. In most discussions, the young Hegel’s views on Spinoza are mentioned, but only perfunctorily, and not granted a sustained analysis. This hurts our understanding of Hegel’s relationship with Spinoza in multiple ways, but it also obscures the deeper connections between these two thinkers made clearer in Hegel’s earlier writings. | 207 pages
Recommended Citation
Fluss, Harrison Andrew, "The Specter of Spinoza: The Legacy of the Pantheism Controversy in Hegel’s Thought | The Specter of Spinoza: The Legacy of the Pantheism Controversy in Hegel’s Thought" (2016). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 2490.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/2490