Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza / / David Maruzzella, David Maruzzella, Gil Morejon, Alexandre Matheron, Filippo Del Lucchese.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Matheron, Alexandre,; Del Lucchese, Filippo,; Maruzzella, David,
• MitwirkendeR: Maruzzella, David,; Morejón, Gil,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Spinoza Studies : SPST
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781474440127; 9783110780413
• DOI: 10.1515/9781474440127?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Maruzzella, David Maruzzella, Gil Morejon, Alexandre Matheron, Filippo Del Lucchese.

A definitive collection of Matheron’s essays on Spinoza – translated into English for the first timeOffers an opportunity to access essential writings by Alexandre Matheron, which are considered among the most important in recent Spinoza scholarship in any language Establishes a rigorous philosophical dialogue between Spinoza and Marx Includes Matheron’s critical responses to other influential 20th-century interpreters of SpinozaSets the scene with a substantial introduction that situates – critically and historically – Matheron’s project and some of the major themes of Spinoza’s philosophyOpens up new directions for research for scholars interested in Spinoza, Marxism and French intellectual historyAlexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece Individu et communauté chez Spinoza (Éditions de Minuit) and he is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza’s philosophy in the twentieth 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.