The Pantheismusstreit and the Spiritualization of Spinozism
This article deals with the way the controversy on the presumed Spinozism of G.E. Lessing during the eighties of the eighteenth century, also known as the Pantheismusstreit, was the start of a new interpretation of Spinoza as a spiritual thinker. At a time when Spinozism was generally considered a f...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2016
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Religion & theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 23, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 148-160 |
| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CB Christian life; spirituality KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBB German language area |
| Further subjects: | B
Spinozism
Spinoza
Pantheismusstreit
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Johann Gottfried Herder
Heinrich Heine
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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| Summary: | This article deals with the way the controversy on the presumed Spinozism of G.E. Lessing during the eighties of the eighteenth century, also known as the Pantheismusstreit, was the start of a new interpretation of Spinoza as a spiritual thinker. At a time when Spinozism was generally considered a form of immoralism, this new interpretation of Spinoza came about as a defence strategy against those who tried to discredit Enlightenment ideas by attacking those harbouring such ideas for being Spinozists. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1574-3012 |
| Contains: | In: Religion & theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15743012-02301009 |