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Immanuel Kant had a copy of this book in his personal library (Warda, Kants Bücher, X, 36). First edition of Mendelssohn's counterblast against Jacobi over the alleged Spinozism of Lessing - the so-called 'Pantheismusstreit'. 'Lessing dead was the subject of a dispute as lively as any he ever participated in while among the living' (Lewis White Beck, Early German Philosophy, p. 356). 'After Lessing's death, F. H. Jacobi contended that Lessing embraced Spinoza's pantheism and thus exemplified the Enlightenment's supposedly inevitable descent into irreligion. Following private correspondence with Jacobi on the issue … Mendelssohn attempted to set the record straight about Lessing's Spinozism in Morgenstunden, oder Vorlesungen über das Dasein Gottes. Learning of Mendelssohn's plans incensed Jacobi who expected to be consulted first and who accordingly responded by publishing, without Mendelssohn's consent, their correspondence a month before the publication of Morgenstunden. Distressed on personal as well as intellectual levels by the controversy over his departed friend's pantheism, Mendelssohn countered with a hastily composed piece, An die Freunde Lessing's: Ein Anhang zu Herrn Jacobi's Briefwechsel über die Lehre des Spinoza (1786). According to legend, so anxious was Mendelssohn to get the manuscript to the publisher that, forgetting his overcoat on a bitterly cold New Year's eve, he delivered the manuscript on foot to the publisher. That night he came down with a cold from which he died four days later, prompting his friends to charge Jacobi with responsibility for Mendelssohn's death' (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Small 8vo, xxiv, 87p, contemporary marbled boards, foxed but otherwise clean, no stamps or inscriptions, a very good copy. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-19117585782
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