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Offering an innovative and illuminating new reading of Spinoza and Novalis
This rigorously researched study reframes our understanding of the intellectual currents in Germany around 1800 through a careful reinterpretation of its key thinker, Novalis, in conversation with Spinoza's philosophy. Siarhei Biareishyk presents an alternative to the standard narrative that resolutely links emergent modernity and secularization to philosophical "idealism" by showing how Spinozan materialism informs the scientific experiments, metaphysical inquiries, and political debates of Novalis and his contemporaries. Shifting our focus away from the historical interpretation of Novalis as a mystic and theorist of subjectivity, Biareishyk elaborates on the Spinozan materialist strain in Novalis in three key domains: ontology and the conception of nature, theories of singularity and individuation, and the concept of the political. He brings current romanticist scholarship into conversation with contemporary discussions of Spinoza in continental philosophy, in the Marxist tradition particularly, demonstrating that the Spinoza-Novalis encounter provides a viable alternative—in its articulation of causality, dialectics, and the political—to the dominant conceptual apparatuses of both Kant and Hegel.
Contents
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Ontology
Chapter One: Against Spinozism around 1800: Novalis Reads Schelling's On the World-Soul
Part II: Singularity
Chapter Two: Freiberg Romanticism: Encounter and Individuation in Novalis, Ritter, and Baader
Chapter Three: The Materialist Dialectic of Extimate Determination: Crystallization as Paradigm between Werner and Simondon
Part III: Politics
Chapter Four: Politics of Transindividuality: Spinoza and Novalis contra Schmitt
Chapter Five: Utopian Non-Individuations: The Limits of Materialist Thought in Romanticism
Coda: Materialism without Matter, Spinoza-Novalis after Marx
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
