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"Recent work in political philosophy and the history of ideas presents Spinoza and Hegel as the most powerful living alternatives to mainstream Enlightenment thought. Yet, for many philosophers and political theorists today, one must choose between Hegel or Spinoza. As Deleuze's influential interpretation maintains, Hegel exemplifies and promotes the modern ""cults of death,"" while Spinoza embodies an irrepressible ""appetite for living."" Hegel is the figure of negation, while Spinoza is the thinker of ""pure affirmation"". Yet, between Hegel and Spinoza there is not only opposition. This collection of essays seeks to find the suppressed kinship between Hegel and Spinoza. Both philosophers offer vigorous and profound alternatives to the methodological individualism of classical liberalism. Likewise, they sketch portraits of reason that are context-responsive and emotionally contoured, offering an especially rich appreciation of our embodied and historical existence. The authors of this collection carefully lay the groundwork for a complex and delicate alliance between these two great iconoclasts, both within and against the Enlightenment tradition."

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Author:   Dr Hasana Sharp ,  Dr Jason E. Smith
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Edition:   NIPPOD
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.363kg
ISBN:  

9781472568182

ISBN 10:   1472568184
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   10 April 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Between Hegel and Spinoza The Editors \ Section I: The Individual and Transindividuality between Ontology and Politics \ The Misunderstanding of the Mode. Spinoza in Hegel's Science of Logic (1812-1816) Vittorio Morfino \ ""Desire is Man's Very Essence"": Spinoza and Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality Jason Read \ The Problem of the Beginning in Political Philosophy: Spinoza After Hegel Andre Santos Campos Section II: Hegel's Spinoza \ Hegel, sive Spinoza: Hegel as his own True Other Warren Montag \ Hegel's Treatment of Spinoza: Its Scope and Its Limits Vance Maxwell \ Hegel's Reconciliation with Spinoza John McCumber \ Section III: The Psychic Life of Negation \ Affirmative Pathology: Spinoza and Hegel on Illness and Self-Repair Christopher Lauer \ Of Suicide and Falling Stones: Finitude, Contingency, and Corporeal Vulnerability in (Judith Butler's) Spinoza Gordon Hull \ Thinking the Space of the Subject between Hegel and Spinoza Caroline Williams \ Section IV: Judaism Beyond Hegel and Spinoza \ The Paradox of a Perfect Democracy: From Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise to Marx's Critique of Ideology Idit Dobbs-Weinstein \ Spinoza, Hegel, and Adorno on Judaism and History Jeffrey A. Bernstein"

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Hasana Sharp is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Quebec, Canada. She is author of Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (University of Chicago, 2011). Jason E. Smith is Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies in Art at the Art Center College of Design, California, USA.

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