Between Hegel and Spinoza (eBook, PDF)

A Volume of Critical Essays
Redaktion: Sharp, Hasana; Smith, Jason E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Recent work in political philosophy and the history of ideas presents Spinoza and Hegel as the most powerful living alternatives to mainstream Enlightenment thought. Yet, for many philosophers and political theorists today, one must choose between Hegel or Spinoza. As Deleuze's influential interpretation maintains, Hegel exemplifies and promotes the modern "cults of death," while Spinoza embodies an irrepressible "appetite for living." Hegel is the figure of negation, while Spinoza is the thinker of "pure affirmation". Yet, between Hegel and Spinoza there is not only opposition. This collection of essays seeks to find the suppressed kinship between Hegel and Spinoza. Both philosophers offer vigorous and profound alternatives to the methodological individualism of classical liberalism. Likewise, they sketch portraits of reason that are context-responsive and emotionally contoured, offering an especially rich appreciation of our embodied and historical existence. The authors of this collection carefully lay the groundwork for a complex and delicate alliance between these two great iconoclasts, both within and against the Enlightenment tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441150523
• Artikelnr.: 39484119

Autorenporträt

Hasana Sharp is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Quebec, Canada. She is author of Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (University of Chicago, 2011). Jason E. Smith is Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies in Art at the Art Center College of Design, California, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Between Hegel and Spinoza The Editors \ Section I: The
Individual and Transindividuality between Ontology and Politics \ The
Misunderstanding of the Mode. Spinoza in Hegel's Science of Logic
(1812-1816) Vittorio Morfino \ "Desire is Man's Very Essence": Spinoza and
Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality Jason Read \ The Problem of the
Beginning in Political Philosophy: Spinoza After Hegel Andre Santos Campos
Section II: Hegel's Spinoza \ Hegel, sive Spinoza: Hegel as his own True
Other Warren Montag \ Hegel's Treatment of Spinoza: Its Scope and Its
Limits Vance Maxwell \ Hegel's Reconciliation with Spinoza John McCumber \
Section III: The Psychic Life of Negation \ Affirmative Pathology: Spinoza
and Hegel on Illness and Self-Repair Christopher Lauer \ Of Suicide and
Falling Stones: Finitude, Contingency, and Corporeal Vulnerability in
(Judith Butler's) Spinoza Gordon Hull \ Thinking the Space of the Subject
between Hegel and Spinoza Caroline Williams \ Section IV: Judaism Beyond
Hegel and Spinoza \ The Paradox of a Perfect Democracy: From Spinoza's
Theologico-Political Treatise to Marx's Critique of Ideology Idit
Dobbs-Weinstein \ Spinoza, Hegel, and Adorno on Judaism and History
Jeffrey A. Bernstein