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1. Introduction.- 2. The Spinoza Controversy: Jacobi’s claims about the irredeemable price of romanticism and their neglected significance for environmental questions.- 3. The Spinoza Controversy Redux: Inter-war Germany’s self-consciously “religious” thinking about nature and the dispute over its boundaries.- 4. Interlude, I: The rise of modern physics and cosmology out of the same inter-war culture.- 5. Interlude, II: The post-War global destruction of the living world by humans and the use of the sciences to try to convey the resulting crisis and need for change.- 6. A Spinoza Controversy for our Time: Ecological nihilism, the limits of science, and the contemporary void of experience without meaning.- 7. Conclusion.

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      Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/01/2026
      ISBN13: 9783032030443, 978-3032030443
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      Environmentalist thought and ideology

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      1. Introduction.- 2. The Spinoza Controversy: Jacobi’s claims about the irredeemable price of romanticism and their neglected significance for environmental questions.- 3. The Spinoza Controversy Redux: Inter-war Germany’s self-consciously “religious” thinking about nature and the dispute over its boundaries.- 4. Interlude, I: The rise of modern physics and cosmology out of the same inter-war culture.- 5. Interlude, II: The post-War global destruction of the living world by humans and the use of the sciences to try to convey the resulting crisis and need for change.- 6. A Spinoza Controversy for our Time: Ecological nihilism, the limits of science, and the contemporary void of experience without meaning.- 7. Conclusion.

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