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Article: Willi Goetschel: Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing and Heine.(Book review)
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- The Germanic Review
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- January 1, 2006
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Willi Goetschel Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing and Heine Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 2004. Pp. x + 351.
Germanistik, since its inception, has been embarrassed by religion and has sought to confine it as a subject subordinate to the interests of reason. In this powerfully argued and thought-provoking study, Willi Goetschel shows how even, indeed especially, canonical authors such as G. E. Lessing and Heine have been distorted by the repression of the theological dimension of their work. Undertaking such a project requires courage as well as industry and perspicacity. Many will bristle at the very possibility of investigations into whether authors thought ...