WorkFriedrich Heinrich Jacobi

Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn [On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Moses Mendelssohn]

Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819) · Breslau: Gottl. Löwe, 1785

InferredFuller names Jacobi explicitly and describes detailed reading engagement, noting that she "could understand in details, but not in system." Hudspeth identified the work as Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn (Breslau, 1785), Jacobi's most famous work on Spinoza's thought.

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1836Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den herrn Moses MendelssohnAttested
“Jacobi I could understand in details, but not in system.”
Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · [ca. 14 February 1836]
MERGED 2026-10-11: absorbed duplicate witness(es) re190 (Mem-2 Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (sections), Mem-2-02 l.5223-5227; tier A; same passage) — counted once here. Parallel clause in the same sentence discussing her direct reading of Jacobi alongside Fichte.

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Letter to James F. Clarke

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“Jacobi I could understand in details, but not in system.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

Inferred Fuller names Jacobi explicitly and describes detailed reading engagement, noting that she "could understand in details, but not in system." Hudspeth identified the work as Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn (Breslau, 1785), Jacobi's most famous work on Spinoza's thought.