Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (Tennessee Vanderbilt University)

Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs

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Produktbeschreibung

By situating Spinoza's thought in a materialist Aristotelian tradition, this book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza's thought and its consequences materially and historically rather than metaphysically.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781107094918
• ISBN-10: 1107094917
• Artikelnr.: 42138427

Autorenporträt

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. She is the author of Maimonides and St Thomas on the Limits of Reason and coeditor of Maimonides and his Heritage (with Lenn E. Goodman and James A. Grady). Her work has appeared in such journals as Epoché and Idealistic Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: whose history, which politics?; 1. The theologico-political
construction of the philosophical tradition; 2. The paradox of a perfect
democracy: from Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise to Marx; 3.
Judgment Day as repudiation: history and justice in Marx, Benjamin, and
Adorno; 4. Destitute life and the overcoming of idolatry: dialectical
image, archaic fetish in Benjamin's and Adorno's conversation; 5. Untimely
timeliness: history, the possibility of experience, and critical praxis;
Afterword: the possibility of political philosophy now.