Politics, ontology and knowledge in Spinoza : essays by Alexandre Matheron / edited by Filippo Del Lucchese, David Maruzzella and Gil Morejon ; translated by David Maruzzella and Gil Morejon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matheron, Alexandre, author.

Del Lucchese, Filippo, 1969- author.

Contributor:

Maruzzella, David, editor.

Morejón, Gil, translator.

Series:

Spinoza studies.

Spinoza studies

Standardized Title:

Ĕtudes sur Spinoza et les philosophies de l’âge Classique. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Philosophy--History--17th century.

Philosophy.

Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.

Spinoza, Benedictus de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 396 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Alexandre Matheron is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the 20th century. These 20 essays, translated into English for the first time, focus on ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Abbreviations

Notes on Translation and Acknowledgements

A Revolutionary Beatitude: Alexandre Matheron’s Spinozism

I Spinoza on Ontology and Knowledge

1 Idea, Idea of the Idea and Certainty in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione 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

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 Evolution: 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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 13 Oct 2020).

ISBN:

9781474484961

1474484964

9781474440127

1474440126

OCLC:

1149025821