Publications

Edited volume:

Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century, ed. Yonover & Gjesdal. OUP (forthcoming 2024). Collection of 15 essays [Link TOC].

Articles and book chapters:

“Spinoza and Jewish Philosophy.” The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy, ed. Franks and Melamed. OUP (forthcoming 2024). 16k words. [Link draft]

“Spinozism Around 1800 and Beyond.” Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition, ed. Gjesdal & Nassar. OUP (forthcoming 2024). 11k words. [Link draft]

“Salomon Maimon’s ‘History of His Philosophical Authorship in Dialogues.’” Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies (2022). 5k word discussion. [Link draft]

“Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Etiology (On the Example of Free Will).” European Journal of Philosophy 29:2 (2021). 11k word article. [Link draft]

“Nietzsche and Spinoza.” A Companion to Spinoza, ed. Melamed. Wiley-Blackwell (2021). 5k words. [Link draft]

“Hegel on Tragedy and the World-Historical Individual’s Right of Revolutionary Action.” Hegel on Tragedy and Comedy, ed. Alznauer. SUNY (2021). 10.5k words. [Link draft]

“Fichte’s First First Principles.” Fichte-Studien 49 (2021). 10.5k word article. [Link draft]

“Salomon Maimon’s ‘First Grounds of Natural Right,’” with Michael Nance. British Journal of the History of Philosophy 29:1 (2021). 5k word discussion. [Link open-access publication]

“Goethe, Maimon, and Spinoza’s Third Kind of Cognition.” Goethe Yearbook 25 (2018). 11k word article. [Link draft]

Translations:

“Salomon Maimon’s ‘History of His Philosophical Authorship, in Dialogues.’” Nexus: Essays in German-Jewish Studies (forthcoming 2022). 4.5k words. [Link draft]

“[J.G.] Fichte’s ‘Some Aphorisms on Religion and Deism.’” Fichte-Studien 49 (2021). 2.5k words. [Link draft]

“Salomon Maimon’s ‘First Grounds of Natural Right,’” with Michael Nance. British Journal of the History of Philosophy 29:1 (2021). 8k words. [Link publication]

Reviews:

Klaus Vieweg, Hegel: Der Philosoph der Freiheit. Beck 2019. European Journal of Philosophy 30:1 (2022). [Link draft]

Ariel Hessayon and Sarah Apetrei (eds.), An Introduction to Jacob Boehme: Four Centuries of Thought and Reception. Routledge 2013. Modern Language Notes 129:3 (2014). [Link publication]

Public-facing:

“Martin Luther King, Jr. and German Philosophy” interview with Peter Adamson for Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie/History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps (2024). 

“Black History Month: Why We Need to Rethink the History of German Philosophy” (in German), with Kevin Harrelson, Kimberly Ann Harris, Daniel James, and Franz Knappik. Berliner Zeitung (2023). [Link publication]

In progress:

A monograph tentatively entitled Nature and Freedom in Nietzsche and Spinoza.

A monograph tentatively entitled Hegel’s Political Philosophy: Origins, Nature, Legacy.

Papers under review on issues in metaphysics and in politics, in Spinoza, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Martin Luther King, Jr. 

Please contact me for copies of any publications, or for information concerning projects that are underway.

Contact: jmyonover [at] princeton.edu