Dimitris Vardoulakis

Spinoza, the Epicurean (eBook, PDF)

Authority and Utility in Materialism

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Produktbeschreibung

Through a radical new reading of the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the major source of Spinoza's 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474476072
• Artikelnr.: 72429132

Autorenporträt

Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (Fordham UP, 2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter (SUNY, 2016) and Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Fordham University Press, 2018). He has also edited or co-edited numerous books, including Spinoza Now(University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Spinoza's Authority (2 volumes, Bloomsbury, 2018). He is the director of "Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society" and is co-series editor of Incitements at Edinburgh University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Why is Spinoza an Epicurean?
1. Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death: The Dialectic of Authority
and Utility in the Preface
2. The Power of Error: Moses, the Prophets and the People
3. Philonomianism: Law and Origin of Finitude
4. Political Monism: The Primacy of Utility over Authority
5. Love Your Friend as Yourself: The Neighbor and the Politics of
Biblical Hermeneutics
6. The Freedom to Philosophise: The Two Paths to Virtue
7. Fear and Power: Natural Right and Authorisation in Spinoza and Hobbes
8. Theocracy: On the State of Authority
9. The Authority to Abrogate: The Two Paths to Virtue and the Internal
Enemy
Conclusion: The Limitation of Spinoza's Epicureanism