Publications

Books:

Spinoza and Genealogy. Cambridge University Press (2026). (Series: Elements in the Philosophy of Spinoza.)

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

Articles and book chapters:

“Spinoza and Jewish Philosophy.” The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy, ed. Franks and Melamed. OUP (forthcoming 2025). 16k words. [Link]

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

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

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

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

“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]

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

“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]

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

Reviews:

Dalia Nassar, Romantic Empiricism: Nature, Art, and Ecology from Herder to Humboldt. Oxford 2022. 328 pages. Journal of the History of Philosophy (forthcoming 2025).

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

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]

Translations:

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

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

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

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]

In progress:

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

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: jason.yonover [at] yale.edu