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"...a useful and important book...enlarges the picture of Spinoza's appearance in history as the first secular Jew, aggressively secular, and yet entirely Jewish in habits of thought and in range of reference. In Israel the question "Who is a Jew?" is widely and passionately discussed, and Yovel's book has brought Spinoza and his dualities into the center of this controversy...Professor Yovel has filled in a part of the background of this self-created and elusive man."---Stuart Hampshire, New York Review of Books
"...Historians of ideas wil remain indebted to Yovel for the extraordinary richness of the tapestry which he unfolds, a tapestry which depicts in vivid detail the religious, literary and philosophical ideas of Spinoza's jewish contemporaries and predecessors in Holland and Spain..."---John Cottingham, Times Higher Education Supplement
A Work that "not only treats of irony but is irony," wrote a contemporary reviewer of The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates. Presented here with Kierkegaard's notes of the celebrated Berlin lectures on "positive philosophy" by F. W. J. Schelling, the book is a seedbed of Kierkegaard's subsequent work, both stylistically and thematically. Part One concentrates on Socrates, the master ironist, as interpreted by Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes, with a word on Hegel and Hegelian categories. Part Two is a more synoptic discussion of the concept of irony in Kierkegaard's categories, with examples from other philosophers and with particular attention given to A. W. Schlegel's novel Lucinde as an epitome of romantic irony.
