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was shocking and disorient- ing for Jacobi's contemporaries; it launched one of the great intellec- tual tumults of the late eighteenth century, the so-called Pantheismus- streit or the "pantheism debate," which engaged all the foremost minds of that extraordinarily fecund period including Goethe, Kant, Hamann, and Herder.
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