Alexandre Matheron

Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (eBook, PDF)

Essays by Alexandre Matheron
Redaktion: Lucchese, Filippo Del; Morejon, Gil; Maruzzella, David / Übersetzer: Maruzzella, David; Morejon, Gil

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Produktbeschreibung

Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece 'Individu et communaute chez Spinoza' (Editions 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474440127
• Artikelnr.: 72431259

Autorenporträt

Alexandre Matheron is former 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 Professor in History of Political Thought at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna; Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, and Chair at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum Press, 2009). 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. 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) 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. 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)

Inhaltsangabe

A Revolutionary Beatitude: Alexandre Matheron's Spinozism
David 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