Summary
Heinrich Jacobi Friedrich: On Spinoza's Doctrine in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn
Appendix
Writings on the Controversy about Divine Things and Their Revelation
A study edition containing the first edition of the letters from 1785, and the expansion of the second (1789) and the expansion of the third edition (1819), with the addition of "Writings on the Dispute about Divine Things and their Revelation" (1811) represents a contribution to the history of philosophical disputes, because it brings a critical dialogue with Spinoza's philosophy, where the subject is a dispute about pantheism, which expanded into a discussion about rationalism as such. The editor of the German edition from 2000, Marion Lauschke, evaluates Jacobi's attitude towards Spinoza's "Ethics" as the attitude of a fascinated but bitter opponent, because Jacobi himself describes himself as "the only legitimate Spinozist who is an anti-Spinozist".
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