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Spinoza, the Epicurean : Authority and Utility in Materialism /
Argues that the Epicurean influence on Spinoza has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontologyRadically re-reads the Theological Political Treatise in relation to Spinoza's other worksSets the book in the intellectual context of 17th-century approaches to religion, politic...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Spinoza Studies : SPST
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Reference Guide to Spinoza's Work
- Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- 1. Why Does it Matter to Read Spinoza as an Epicurean?
- 2. Authority and Utility: A Sketch
- 3. On Method
- Introduction: Why is Spinoza an Epicurean?
- Introduction
- 1. 'The authority of Plato, Aristotle and Socrates carries little weight with me': Spinoza and Epicureanism
- 2. The Three Themes of Spinoza's Epicureanism: Authority, Monism and Judgement
- 3. The Dialectic of Authority and Utility: Spinoza's Promise
- 1. Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death: The Dialectic of Authority and Utility in the Preface
- Introduction
- 1. 'A free man thinks of nothing less than of death . . .': Fear and Freedom in Epicurus
- 2. Ante-secularism: The Construction of Authority and Human Nature in Lucretius
- 3. 'Fighting for their servitude as if for salvation': Monarchy versus Democracy
- 2. The Power of Error: Moses, the Prophets and the People (chapters 1, 2 and 3)
- Introduction
- 1. Moses: Prophecy as Communication
- 2. 'God has no particular style of speech': The Error about God's Potentia
- 3. Encountering the People: Causality and Instrumentality
- 3. Philonomianism: Law and the Origin of Finitude (chapter 4)
- Introduction
- 1. Ratio Vivendi: Law and Living
- 2. 'You cannot make a republic without killing people': The Tragedy of Legitimacy without Authority in Hannah Arendt
- 3. On the Origins of Finitude: History as Tragedy or Comedy?
- 4. Political Monism: The Primacy of Utility over Authority (chapters 5 and 6)
- Introduction
- 1. 'Society is advantageous': Utility and Social Formation
- 2. Natural and Agonistic Democracy
- 3. Political Monism: The Utility of Miracles
- 5. Love your Friend as Yourself: The Neighbour and the Politics of Biblical Hermeneutics (chapters 7 to 13)
- Introduction
- 1. Monism and Interpretation: No Meaning Outside the Text
- 2. Didactic Authority: The Universal as Communication
- 3. Universality without Transcendence: Levinas contra 'Spinozism'
- 6. The Freedom to Philosophize: The Two Paths to Virtue (chapters 14 and 15)
- Introduction
- 1. 'Finally'? The Politics of the Distinction between Faith and Reason
- 2. The Necessary Rebel: The Transversal of Faith and Reason
- 3. The Freedom to Philosophize: Freedom from Personal Authority and the Freedom to Transverse
- 7. Fear and Power: Natural Right and Authorization in Spinoza and Hobbes (chapter 16)
- Introduction
- 1. Epicurean Communities: Fear and Utility
- 2. The Robber in the Night: On the Promise
- 3. The Right to Resist or the Fallibility of Judgement? On the Limits of Authorization
- 8. Theocracy: On the State of Authority (chapters 17 and 18)
- Introduction
- 1. Josephus: The Anti-authoritarianism of Theocracy
- 2. Between Tyranny and Revolution: The Limits of the State of Authority
- 3. The Fragmentation of Authority: On the Reasons for the Destruction of the Hebrew State
- 9. The Authority to Abrogate: The Two Paths to Virtue and the Internal Enemy (chapters 19 and 20)
- Introduction
- 1. The Path of the Emotions: Neighbourly Love as a Political Principle
- 2. The Path of Reason: The Unendurable in Politics
- 3. The Right to Abrogate: The Internal Enemy and Democracy
- Conclusion: The Limitation of Spinoza's Epicureanism
- Bibliography
- Index