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Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- NOTE ON SOURCES -- Spinoza and Other Heretics -- CHAPTER I. Spinoza and Kant; Critique of Religion and Biblical Hermeneutics -- CHAPTER 2. Spinoza and Hegel: The Immanent God— Substance or Spirit -- CHAPTER 3. Spinoza in Heine, Hess, Feuerbach: The Naturalization of Man -- CHAPTER 4. Spinoza and Marx: Man-in-Nature and the Science of Redemption -- CHAPTER 5. Spinoza and Nietzsche: Amor dei and Amorfati -- CHAPTER 6. Spinoza and Freud: Self-Knowledge as Emancipation -- CHAPTER 7. Epilogue: Immanence and Finitude -- AFTERWORD -- NOTES -- INDEX

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Note on Sources -- CHAPTER 1. Prologue: Heretic and Banned -- CHAPTER 2. Spinoza, the Marrano of Reason -- CHAPTER 3 . The Split Mind: New Jews in Amsterdam -- CHAPTER 4. Marranos in Mask and a World without Transcendence: Rojas and La Celestina -- CHAPTER 5. Spinoza, the Multitude, and Dual Language -- CHAPTER 6. Knowledge as Alternative Salvation -- CHAPTER 7. Epilogue Spinoza and His People: The First Secular Jew? -- Afterword to Volume I -- Notes -- Index

A short, clear, and authoritative guide to one of the most important and difficult works of modern philosophyPerhaps the most influential work of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is also one of the hardest to read, since it brims with complex arguments, difficult ideas, and tortuous sentences. A philosophical revolutionary, Kant had to invent a language to express his new ideas, and he wrote quickly. It's little wonder that the Critique was misunderstood from the start, or that Kant was compelled to revise it in a second edition, or that it still presents great challenges to the reader. In this short, accessible book, eminent philosopher and Kant expert Yirmiyahu Yovel helps readers find their way through the web of Kant's classic by providing a clear and authoritative summary of the entire work. The distillation of decades of studying and teaching Kant, Yovel's "systematic explication" untangles the ideas and arguments of the Critique in the order in which Kant presents them. This guide provides helpful explanations of difficult issues such as the difference between general and transcendental logic, the variants of Transcendental Deduction, and the constitutive role of the "I think." Yovel underscores the central importance of Kant's insistence on the finitude of reason and succinctly describes how the Critique's key ideas are related to Kant's other writings. The result is an invaluable guide for philosophers and students

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: A Millennium of Jewish Spain -- 1 Sefarad, the Spanish Jerusalem -- 2 Reconquest and Revival: The Cross Is Back -- 3 Pogroms and Mass Conversions -- PART TWO: Marrano Otherness and Dualities -- 4 Conversos: The Other Within -- 5 The New Otherness: Duality in Many Faces -- 6 Marrano Mosaic I: Places, Persons, Poems -- 7 The Arias d'Avilas: Hidden Jews or Marrano Dualists? -- PART THREE: The Growing Marrano Problem -- 8 Enrique the Impotent: Prosperity, Anarchy, and Inquisition on the Horizon -- 9 Ferdinand, Isabella, and the "True Inquisition" -- 10 The Great Expulsion -- PART FOUR: Portuguese Marranism Takes Over -- 11 Trap in Portugal -- 12 Portuguese Inquisition, Pure Blood, and the "Nation" -- PART FIVE: New Christian Religions and Spanish Culture -- 13 A Judaizing Marrano Religion -- 14 New Christians at the Forefront of Spanish Culture -- 15 A Christian Religion of the Interior -- 16 Picaresque Antiheroes -- PART SIX: Dispersion and Modernity -- 17 Marranos Globalized: The Networks, the "Nation" -- 18 Marrano Mosaic II: Wanderers, Martyrs, Intellectuals, Dissenters -- 19 Marranos and Western Modernity -- 20 Marranos and Jewish Modernity -- Epilogue Present-Day Marranos -- Appendix: Trends in the Literature -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

I. Nietzsche and the Method of Philosophy -- Nietzsche on Philosophy, Interpretation, and Truth -- Nietzsche, Hume, and the Genealogical Method -- Nietzsche and the Project of Bringing Philosophy to an End -- Nietzsche and Contemporary Hermeneutics -- II. Varieties of Nietzsche's Affirmation -- A More Severe Morality: Nietzsche's Affirmative Ethics -- Will to Knowledge, Will to Ignorance, and Will to Power in Beyond Good and Evil -- The Socratic Nietzsche -- Nietzsche's Concept of Education -- Nietzsche's Style of Affirmation: The Metaphors of Genealogy -- Nietzsche: Psychology vs. Philosophy, and Freedom -- Nietzsche's Enticing Psychology of Power -- III. Nietzschean Affinities and Confrontations -- Nietzsche and Spinoza: amor fati and amor dei -- Nietzsche und Heine. Kritik des christlichen Gottesbegriffs -- Nietzsche—Wagner im Sommer 1878.

zur Ausg. 1994: Rezension (ekz): Der Autor, Professor für Philosophie und Direktor des Jerusalemer Internationalen Spinoza-Instituts, untersucht in diesem sorgfältig edierten Buch die Grundlagen und Wirkungen der Philosophie Baruch Spinozas (1632-1677). Im 1. Teil spürt Yovel die historischen Wurzeln von Spinozas Denken in der Kultur der Meranen auf, jener ehemaligen spanischen Juden, die im 15. Jahrhundert von der Inquisition zwangsweise zum Christentum bekehrt worden waren und in dem Konflikt zwischen dem Absolutheitsanspruch des Christentums und dem des Judentums eigene, modern anmutende Vorstellungen entwickelten. In dieser Tradition steht auch Spinoza mit seiner rationalen und säkularen "Philosophie der Immanenz", die als einzige Quelle von Werten und Normen das Diesseits anerkennt und transzendente Mächte ablehnt. Der 2. Teil untersucht die Wirkung seiner Philosophie auf wichtige Denker der Moderne: Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche u.a. Fundiert, gut lesbar, vorhandene Monographien ergänzend. (3)