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Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza - Alexandre Matheron

Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza

Essays by Alexandre Matheron
Buch | Softcover
424 Seiten
2022
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4011-0 (ISBN)
CHF 55,85 inkl. MwSt
Alexandre Matheron is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza’s philosophy in the 20th century. These 20 essays, translated into English for the first time, focus on ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries.
Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece 'Individu et communauté chez Spinoza' (Éditions de Minuit) and he is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza’s philosophy in the 20th century. The 20 essays gathered here focus on the themes of ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries. This is a crucial collection for anyone seeking to understand 20th-century continental Spinozism.

Alexandre Matheron was formerly Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and the CNRS. His key works include The Individual and Community in Spinoza (Éditions de Minuit, 1968), Christ and the Salvation of the Ignorants in Spinoza (Éditions Aubier-Montaigne, 1971) and Anthropology and Politics in the 17th Century (Vrin, 1985). Filippo Del Lucchese is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Bologna and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg. His research interests are in the early modern period and the history of political thought and Marxism. He has been a Marie Curie fellow and holds degrees from the universities of Pisa and Paris IV (Sorbonne). He is the author of Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum, 2009), The Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli (EUP, 2015), and Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (EUP, 2019). He has published articles in journals such as History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory, Dialogue, International Studies in Philosophy, and Differences. He has taught in France, Lebanon, the United States and in the UK. David Maruzzella received his MA in philosophie contemporaine from the École normale supérieure (Rue d’Ulm) and is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the co-translator of Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza by Alexandre Matheron (EUP, 2020). David Maruzzella received his MA in philosophie contemporaine from the École normale supérieure (Rue d’Ulm) and is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the co-translator of Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza by Alexandre Matheron (EUP, 2020). Gil Morejón teaches at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on early modern metaphysics and political theory. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and co-edited and co-translated Alexandre Matheron's Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) Gil Morejón teaches at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on early modern metaphysics and political theory. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and co-edited and co-translated Alexandre Matheron's Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

A Revolutionary Beatitude: Alexandre Matheron’s SpinozismDavid Maruzzella and Gil Morejón

Part 1: Spinoza on Ontology and Knowledge

1. Idea, Idea of the Idea, and Certainty in the Tractatus de Emendatione Intellectus and the Ethics

2. Essence, Existence, and Power in Part I of the Ethics: The Foundations of Proposition 16

3. Physics and Ontology in Spinoza: The Enigmatic Response to Tschirnhaus

4: The Year 1663 and the Spinozist Identity of Being and Power: Hypothesis on a Development

5. Eternal Life and the Body according to Spinoza

6. Intellectual Love of God, Eternal Part of the amor erga Deum

Part II: Spinoza on Politics and Ethics

7. State and Morality according to Spinoza

8. Ethics and Politics in Spinoza (Remarks on the Role of Ethics IV, 37 Scholium 2)

9. Indignation and the Conatus of the Spinozist State

10. Passions and Institutions according to Spinoza

11. The Problem of Spinoza’s Development: From the Theologico-Political Treatise to the Political Treatise

12. Is the State, according to Spinoza, an Individual in Spinoza’s Sense?

13. The Ontological Status of Scripture and the Spinozist Doctrine of Individuality

14. Spinoza and Power

15. Spinoza and Property

16. Spinoza and Sexuality

17. Women and Servants in Spinozist Democracy

18. The ‘Right of the Stronger’: Hobbes contra Spinoza

19. The Theoretical Function of Democracy in Spinoza and Hobbes

20. Spinoza and the Breakdown of Thomist Politics: Machiavellianism and Utopia

Appendix 1. Interview with Laurent Bove and Pierre-François Moreau

Appendix 2. Chronology of Works by Matheron

Works Cited

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Spinoza Studies
Übersetzer David Maruzzella, Gil Morejon
Verlagsort Edinburgh
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik / Ontologie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 1-4744-4011-8 / 1474440118
ISBN-13 978-1-4744-4011-0 / 9781474440110
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