Jason Maurice Yonover

Research Associate
Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Philosophy
Princeton University
Email: [email protected]
Website: Personal / faculty page
Biography
Jason Maurice Yonover is the Desai Family Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University. He holds PhDs from the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Johns Hopkins University. He is co-editor of the volume Spinoza in Germany: Political and Religious Thought Across the Long Nineteenth Century, forthcoming with Oxford University Press. He is also author of articles or chapters in the European Journal of Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, the Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy, and other venues. His research on issues concerning freedom, power, and right engages with several traditions in the history of philosophy and political philosophy.
Selected publications
- Chapter · 2026 Spinoza and Jewish Philosophy The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Philosophy Spinoza's place in Jewish philosophy, through his metaphysics, ethics and idea of blessedness.
- Article · 2021 Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Etiology (On the Example of Free Will) European Journal of Philosophy A neglected affinity between Nietzsche and Spinoza: explaining why we wrongly believe in free will.
- Article · 2021 Salomon Maimon, “On the First Grounds of Natural Right” British Journal for the History of Philosophy
- Article · 2018 Goethe, Maimon, and Spinoza's Third Kind of Cognition Goethe Yearbook
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