Vassányi, Miklós:
Anima Mundie : The Rise of the World Soul Theory in Modern German Philosophy

Dordrecht [e.a.] : Springer, 2011. - XIII, (I), 434 pp. - (Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idèes / International Archives of the History of ideas ; 202).

Contains bibliography: [397]-414
Mention of Spinoza: Part III. Gradual Rise of the Concept of a World Soul in the 'Lessingzeit' [....]. Chapter 7. The Philosophical Incompatibility of SPINOZA's System with the World Soul Theory. BAYLE's Identification of Spinozism with the World Soul Theory, and WACHTER's Denial of the Same. LESSING's Statement concerning the World Soul, and His Alleged Spinozism in JACOBI's 'Ueber die Lehre des Spinoza' (1785). MENDELSSOHN's 'Morgenstunden' (1785), and HERDER's 'Gott. Einige Gespräche' (1787). HERDER's Rejection of the Identification of God with the 'Weltseele': 187-327

Literature type: Monographs
Thematic areas: Metaphysics / ontology, Reception history
Subject: E, Ep., KV, PPC/CM
Subject (individuals): Bayle, Pierre ; Hemsterhuis, Frans ; Herder, Gottfried Wilhelm ; Jacobi, Friedrich Heinrich ; Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm ; Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim ; Mendelssohn, Moses ; Wachter, Johann Georg

Autopsy: yes

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