Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza

Hegel and the Challenge of Spinoza explores the powerful continuing influence of Spinoza''s metaphysical thinking in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German philosophy. George di Giovanni examines the ways in which Hegel''s own metaphysics sought to meet the challenges posed by Spinoza''s monism, not by disproving monism, but by rendering it moot. In this, di Giovanni argues, Hegel wa...