Spinoza, the Epicurean : Authority and Utility in Materialism
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Spinoza Studies
ISBN-10
147447604X
ISBN-13
9781474476041
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2020
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
662 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 24.00 x 2.80 cms
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By radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism.
Through a radical new reading of the ''Theological Political Treatise'', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the major source of Spinozas materialism is the Epicurean tradition that re-emerges in modernity when manuscripts by Epicurus and Lucretius are rediscovered. This reconsideration of Spinoza''s political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism. Central to this new reading of Spinoza are the theory of practical judgment (understood as the calculation of utility) and its implications for a theory of democracy that is resolutely positioned against authority.
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