The two eyes of Spinoza and other essays on philosophers / Leszek Kołakowski ; edited by Zbigniew Janowski ; translation by Agnieszka Kołakowska and Frederick Franzen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kołakowski, Leszek

Contributor:

Janowski, Zbigniew.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections. English

Language:

English

French

German

Polish

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

vii, 311 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2004.

Contents:

I The Two Eyes of Spinoza 1

II Spinoza: A Metaphysics of Suicide or of Survival? 16

III Pierre Bayle and the Critique of Spinoza's Metaphysics of Substance 27

IV Dutch Seventeenth-Century Non-Denominationalism and Religio Rationalis: Mennonites, Collegiants and the Spinoza Connection 43

V The Mystical Heresy and the Rationalist Heresy in Dutch Calvinism at the End of the Seventeenth Century 84

VI The Tragic Career of Uriel da Costa 95

VII Pierre Gassendi: Christian, Materialist, Skeptic 103

VIII The Philosophical Role of the Reformation: Martin Luther and the Origins of Subjectivity 143

IX Richard Avenarius and the Apparent Suicide of Philosophy 161

X Karl Marx and the Classical Definition of Truth 173

XI Althusser's Marx 196

XII A Comment on Heidegger's Comment on Nietzsche's Alleged Comment on Hegel's Comment on the Power of Negativity 214

XIII The Epistemology of Striptease 222

XIV The Priest and the Jester: Reflections on the Theological Heritage of Contemporary Thought 239

XV Heresy 263

XVI The Libertine 289.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-309) and index.

ISBN:

158731875X

OCLC:

50802649