Spinoza contra phenomenology : French rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze / Knox Peden
- Author
- Peden, Knox
- Published
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
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- Series
- Contents
- Introduction : Spinozism : a source of enthusiasm -- From consciousness to the concept : the Spinozism of Jean Cavaillès -- Spinoza contra Descartes : Martial Gueroult versus Ferdinand Alquié -- From Stalinism to asceticism : Jean-Toussaint Desanti between Spinoza and Husserl -- Recuperating science : the sources of Louis Althusser's Spinozism -- Redefining philosophy : the development of Louis Althusser's Spinozism -- Toward a science of the singular : Gilles Deleuze between Heidegger and Spinoza -- Nothing is possible : the strange Spinozism of Gilles Deleuze -- Conclusion : the sense of Spinozism.
- Summary
- Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This book recounts how a series of French philosophers used Spinoza to erect a bulwark against the nominally irrationalist tendencies of phenomenology. From its beginnings in the interwar years, this rationa.
- Subject(s)
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677—Influence
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677
- 1900-1999
- Philosophy, French—20th century
- Rationalism
- Phenomenology
- Philosophie française—20e siècle
- Rationalisme
- Phénoménologie
- Rationalism (philosophy)
- PHILOSOPHY—History & Surveys—Modern
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Philosophy, French
- ISBN
- 9780804791366 (electronic bk.)
0804791368 (electronic bk.)
9780804787413
0804787417
9780804791342
0804791341 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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