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Through a close, accessible reading of Spinoza's Ethics, this book explores solutions to the problem of dethroning the human subject.
This reading of Spinoza's work is informed by current debates in continental thought, especially its shift in the last two decades to various forms of realisms and materialisms through the works of, among others, Quentin Meillassoux, Ray Brassier, Graham Harman, Levi Bryant, Catherine Malabou, and Maurizio Ferrari. Rafael Winkler argues that the key to dethroning the human subject-a standing problem in contemporary continental thought-lies in Spinoza's conception of substance as being causally and explanatorily self-sufficient, his necessitarianism and actualism, and in the immanence of substance to its finite modes. By conducting this close reading of Spinoza's Ethics (together with his Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Theological-Political Treatise), the author also clarifies some of the key concepts and arguments in Spinoza's work for experienced and junior scholars of philosophy, as well as a wider audience interested in Spinoza's psychology, ethics, and politics.
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Introduction: Philosophy as Therapy
Part One: The Method of the Ethics: From Emendation to Construction
1. The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect: Towards a New Theory of Truth
2. Geometry as Methodological Paradigm: The Construction of the Necessary Being
3. A Quasi-Transcendental Argument
Part Two: Substance, Expression, and the Absolute
4. Substance and Its Discontents: Towards an Explanatory Concept
5. Rationalism or Irrationalism?
6. Modes, Inherence, and the Logic of Expression
7. The Unity of Substance and the Difference Between Attributes
Part Three: The Proofs of God's Existence and Power
8. Three Proofs, One Demonstration: The Unity of Existence, Power, and the Attributes
9. Self-Verifying Existence: Spinoza's Ontological Argument and the Limits of the Kantian Critique
10. From Negation to Affirmation: The PSR, Infinite Power, and God's Necessary Existence
11. Deus sive Potentia: Existence, Power, and the Nature of the Divine Being
12. From Divine Inertia to Finite Striving: Conatus, Expression, and the Self-Comprehension of Substance
Part Four: Knowing and Being: The Identity Thesis and Spinoza's Ethics of Liberation
13. The Expressive Mind: Imagination, Indistinguishability, and the Parity of Ideas
14. Modal Identity and Its Truthmaker: Essence, Conatus, and Therapeutic Transformation
15. Acting Through Understanding: Adequate Ideas, Transformation, and the Path to Blessedness
Conclusion: The Therapy of Necessity
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 15 Apr 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9798216276951 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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