Spinoza Now.
Title:
Spinoza Now.
Author:
Vardoulakis, Dimitris.
ISBN:
9780816676804
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (384 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Note on References to Spinoza's Works -- Editor's Note -- Spinoza Now: An Introduction -- Part I. Strategies for Reading Spinoza -- 1. Spinoza and the Conflict of Interpretations -- 2. What Is a Proof in Spinoza's Ethics? -- 3. The Joyful Passions in Spinoza's Theory of Relations -- 4. Spinoza's Ass -- Part II. Politics, Theology, and Interpretation -- 5. Toward an Inclusive Universalism: Spinoza's Ethics of Sustainability -- 6. Prophecy without Prophets: Spinoza and Maimonides on Law and the Democracy of Knowledge -- 7. Interjecting Empty Spaces: Imagination and Interpretation in Spinoza's: Tractatus Theologico-Politicus -- 8. Marx before Spinoza: Notes toward an Investigation -- Part III. Spinoza and the Arts -- 9. Image and Machine: Introduction to Thomas Hirschhorn's: Spinoza Monument -- 10. Spinoza, Ratiocination, and Art -- 11. An Inter-action: Rembrandt and Spinoza -- Part IV. Encounters about Life and Death -- 12. Power and Ontology between Heidegger and Spinoza -- 13. A Thought beyond Dualisms, Creationist and Evolutionist Alike -- 14. A Matter of Life and Death: Spinoza and Derrida -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This collection, the first broadly interdisciplinary volume dealing with Spinozan thought, asserts the importance of Spinoza's philosophy of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates. Engaging with Spinoza's insistence on the centrality of the passions as the site of the creative and productive forces shaping society, this collection critiques the impulse to transcendence and regimes of mastery, exposing universal values as illusory. "Spinoza Now" pursues Spinoza's challenge to abandon the temptation to think through the prism of death in order to arrive at a truly liberatory notion of freedom. In this bold endeavor, the essays gathered here extend the Spinozan project beyond the disciplinary boundaries of philosophy to encompass all forms of life-affirming activity, including the arts and literature. The essays, taken together, suggest that "Spinoza now" is not so much a statement about a "truth" that Spinoza's writings can reveal to us in our present situation. It is, rather, the injunction to adhere to the attitude that affirms both necessity and impossibility. Contributors: Alain Badou, ecole Normale Superieure; Mieke Bal, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis; Cesare Casarino, U of Minnesota; Justin Clemens, U of Melbourne; Simon Duffy, U of Sydney; Sebastian Egenhofer, U of Basel; Alexander Garcia Duttmann, Goldsmiths, U of London; Arthur Jacobson, Yeshiva U; A. Kiarina Kordela, Macalester College; Michael Mack, U of Nottingham; Warren Montag, Occidental College; Antonio Negri; Christopher Norris, U of Cardiff, Wales; Anthony Uhlmann, U of Western Sydney.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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