Hegel or Spinoza / Pierre Macherey ; translated by Susan M. Ruddick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macherey, Pierre.

Standardized Title:

Hegel ou Spinoza. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Physical Description:

xxi, 245 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011]

Summary:

Macherey argues that Hegel misinterprets Spinoza, but along with his mentor Louis Althusser he thinks Spinoza anticipates Hegel and his misreading. The work articulates a Spinozist reading of Hegel while maintaining that both partake of a common truth. Along the way, Macherey offers Spinoza as an alternative and more radical dialectical thinker that helps us think through and avoid the idealist temptation to which Hegel succumbs. He challenges Hegel's criticism of Spinoza in three major areas: Spinoza's supposed reliance on mathematical reasoning and its dualistic implications, Hegel's understanding of Spinoza's claim that attributes are infinite, and Spinoza's thesis that all determination is negation. By the end, Macherey suggests Spinoza helps us ask how to think of a dialectic that would function without the promise that all its contradictions would be resolved. This book is well written and carefully translated by Susan Ruddick with a sharp understanding of the history of translating both thinkers. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Hegel reads Spinoza

More geometrico

The problem of the attributes

Omnis determinato est negatio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816677405

0816677409

9780816677412

0816677417

OCLC:

719427953