LIBERATING SPINOZA. SHORT HISTORY OF AN ALTERNATIVE RECEPTION OF SPINOZA’S THOUGHT
LIBERATING SPINOZA. SHORT HISTORY OF AN ALTERNATIVE RECEPTION OF SPINOZA’S THOUGHT

Summary/Abstract: The argumentation of the German theologian from Saxony, presented here very briefly, is profound and complex and definitely requires greater attention in a separate study. But Voigtländer's attempt remains relatively singular in the landscape of Spinoza's reception since the beginning of the eighteenth century until today. On the contrary, the literature concerning the thinking of the Dutch philosopher has especially until the beginning of the nineteenth century a polemic character. In his Spinoza Bibliography, Antonius van der Linde mentions fifty titles of texts, which polemizes against Spinoza over the course of two hundred years, between 1670 and 1870. By comparison, the non-polemic monographs about the doctrine of Spinoza begin to appear only at the end of the eighteenth century and generally provide conventional interpretations, which start uncritically from the alleged pantheism of Benedict Spinoza.

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