Hegel and Spinoza : substance and negativity / Gregor Moder ; foreword by Mladen Dolar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moder, Gregor, 1979- author.

Contributor:

Dolar, Mladen, writer of foreword.

Series:

Diaeresis

Standardized Title:

Hegel in Spinoza. English

Language:

English

Slovenian

Subjects (All):

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Negativity (Philosophy).

Substance (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xiii, 181 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Gregor Moder's Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity is a lively entry into current debates concerning Hegel, Spinoza, and their relation. Hegel and Spinoza are two of the most influential philosophers of the modern era, and the traditions of thought they inaugurated have been in continuous dialogue and conflict ever since Hegel first criticized Spinoza. Notably, eighteenth-and nineteenth-century German Idealists aimed to overcome the determinism of Spinoza's system by securing a place for the freedom of the subject within it, and twentieth-century French materialists such as Althusser and Deleuze rallied behind Spinoza as the ultimate champion of anti-Hegelian materialism. This conflict, or mutual rejection, lives on today in recent discussions about materialism. Contemporary thinkers either make a Hegelian case for the productiveness of concepts of the negative, nothingness, and death, or in a way that is inspired by Spinoza they abolish the concepts of the subject and negation and argue for pure affirmation and the vitalistic production of differences. Hegel and Spinoza traces the historical roots of these alternatives and shows how contemporary discussions between Heideggerians and Althusserians, Lacanians and Deleuzians are a variation of the disagreement between Hegel and Spinoza. Throughout, Moder persuasively demonstrates that the best way to read Hegel and Spinoza is not in opposition or contrast but together: as Hegel and Spinoza. Book jacket.

Contents:

Foreword: Hegel or Spinoza? Yes, please! / Mladen Dolar

Introduction. Hegel and Spinoza: the question of reading

Hegel's logic of pure being and Spinoza

History is logic

Telos, teleology, teleiosis

Death and finality

Ideology and the originality of the swerve

Conclusion. Substance and negativity: the primacy of negativity.

Notes:

Substantially revised translation of Hegel in Spinoza : substanca in negativnost. Ljubljana : Druestvo za teoretsko psihoanalizo, 2009; translated from Slovenian by the author--Email from publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810135420

0810135426

9780810135413

0810135418

OCLC:

958781168