Perspectives on Spinoza in Works by Schiller, Büchner, and C.F. Meyer - Taylor, Rodney R.
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This study is an investigation of the impact of Spinozan metaphysics on German-speaking writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In terms of specific works by Friedrich Schiller and C.F. Meyer, this influence has hitherto gone unnoticed. Though it has long been recognized that George Büchner was profoundly affected by Spinozism, in-depth treatments of this important dimension of his thought have, by and large, been lacking. This book contains an attempt to come to terms with significant aspects of Büchner's reception of Spinoza, as found both in his literary and non-literary writings.…mehr

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This study is an investigation of the impact of Spinozan metaphysics on German-speaking writers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In terms of specific works by Friedrich Schiller and C.F. Meyer, this influence has hitherto gone unnoticed. Though it has long been recognized that George Büchner was profoundly affected by Spinozism, in-depth treatments of this important dimension of his thought have, by and large, been lacking. This book contains an attempt to come to terms with significant aspects of Büchner's reception of Spinoza, as found both in his literary and non-literary writings.
Autorenporträt
The Author: Rodney Taylor is an assistant professor of German at Northeast Missouri State University. He received his Ph.D. in German at the University of Utah. Dr. Taylor is the author of several articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century German literature, as well as the monograph, History and the Paradoxes of Metaphysics in Dantons Tod (Peter Lang, 1990).
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"To this date, the considerable influence of Spinozism on German-speaking literature received little attention in related studies. Rodney Taylor now presents an impressive and pioneering large-scale investigation of this important phenomenon. This will be a sine qua non for all future research." (Gerhard P. Knapp, University of Utah)
"Das Buch enthält fünf äußerst lesenswerte, als solche selbständige Aufsätze, die sich mit Aspekten der un- oder mittelbaren Einflußnahme Spinozas ø...! auf F. von Schiller, G. Büchner und C.F. Meyer beschäftigen." (Günter Helmes, Germanistik)
"...this study contains a wealth of new insights and much food for thought. It belongs on the shelves of every scholar in the history of ideas and culture." (Gerhard P. Knapp, The German Quarterly)