Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza

George di Giovanni is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill University. He is author of Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors (Cambridge University Press, 2005), editor of many essay collections, including Karl Leonhard Reinhold and the Enlightenment (2010), and editor and translator of numerous texts by Kant, Hegel and Jacobi.

• 1. Introduction: The Spinoza Connection, or the Discovery of 'Feeling'; 2. The Nature of 'Nature' in Contention; 3. The Transcendental Spinozism of the Wissenschaftslehre; 4. Schelling's Prophetic Spinozism; 5. Schelling, Hegel, and Positivity; 6. Of Things Divine and Logical.

'Di Giovanni's new book offers a synoptic and accessible presentation of German idealism with an eye toward clarifying under-appreciated texts in overlooked periods of this tradition, particularly the late Fichte and the late Schelling, and highlighting understudied themes of central importance within this tradition, particularly the philosophy of religion and the concept of feeling.' G. Anthony Bruno, Royal Holloway, University of London