Translated by vittorio morfino in il transindividuale soggetti, relazioni, mutazioni, edited by etienne balibar and vittorio. So, also, a thought is limited by another thought, but a body is not limited by thought, nor a thought by body. His exposition of the main lines of spinoza s thought is clear and in my opinion correct. Hegel or spinoza by pierre macherey, 11012 new apps. A more general reassessment of spinoza s thought in the project of a radical. This is, by the way, in the context of a fine summary of spinoza s rationalism. Vittorio morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic spinozamachiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. It interrogates spinozas thought through althussers and vice versa, with the intention of opening new horizons for the question of materialism. Spinoza s authority volume ii makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of spinoza.
Goshgarian translates fiction and philosophy from french, german, and armenian into english. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. From the fragmentary intuitions althusser produced about spinoza throughout his life, morfino builds a new and comprehensive interpretation of spinozas philosophy. There seem to be few philosophical problems of any importance that do not find. Deleuzes reconstruction of spinozas system as a logic of expres. The spinozamachiavelli encounter edinburgh university press. Vittorio morfino is a senior researcher in the history of philosophy at the universita di milanobicocca. Pdf introduction to vittorio morfino, causa sui or. Revisiting a marxist c r c r encounter with spinoza. With this book spinoza has found a critic he so richly deserves.
Binghamton universitysuny philosophy 1996 ma binghamton universitysuny philosophy 1994 ba hampshire college philosophy. Politicized physics in seventeenthcentury philosophy. Spinozas political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. Roecklein in the origins of western philosophical thought, doctrines of physics intertwined with the debate between political philosophers. Lincontro spinoza machiavelli milano 2002, paris 2012, incursioni spinoziste milano 2002, il tempo della moltitudine roma. He argues that spinoza provides resources for rethinking marxist notions of temporality and structure. Plural temporality transindividuality and the aleatory. What spinoza calls the intellectual love of god is knowledge of the third kind.
Historical research is shedding light on spinozas circles and the connection between the politicalreligious conflicts in the dutch republic and his role as the philosopher of modernity. Vittorio morfinois a senior researcher in the history of philosophy at the universita di milanobicocca. Baruch spinoza has 178 books on goodreads with 118128 ratings. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. Reading capital s promotion of the spinozist sources of marxism has stimulated a series of important studies in several major zones of marxist theoretical work. Transindividuality and the aleatory between spinoza and althusser brill, 2014. Essays on bacon, descartes, hobbes, and spinoza robert j. Transindividuality and the aleatory between spinoza and althusser deserves to be considered an event in its own right. Betraying spinoza the renegade jew who gave us modernity. Transindividuality and the aleatory between spinoza and althusser, each of which involve key points of intervention and related philosophical debates regarding the references to spinoza that comprised althussers constant labor in marxist theory. Anglophone marxists have scarcely engaged with the work individu et communaute chez spinoza is widely regarded as a landmark of spinoza scholarship. He is the translator of two collections of the work of louis althusser, the humanist controversy and philosophy of the encounter, as well as two books by him, philosophy for nonphilosophers bloomsbury 2016 and how to be marxist in philosophy bloomsbury, forthcoming. Spinozas ethics is a wideranging treatise that touches on almost every major area of philosophy.
Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Spinoza in this sense is a radical pars destruens of the received vocabulary of philosophy. Al enige dagen houdt vittorio morfino mij flink bezig. Morfino is not very well known in the angloamerican world, but those who have heard him speak at the annual historical materialism conference in london know how important his work is to marxism, spinoza, and. Spinozas authority volume ii makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of spinoza. Published in latin in 1677, the ethics intends to demonstrate in the manner of surveyors not only the existence of god, the nature and the origin of the human mind, but. Lincontro spinoza machiavelli milano, 2002, paris, 2012, incursioni. Spinoza and explications with the technical or fo rmal use of words like mode for example properly distinguished from the impre cise informal use of the latin modus or french mode, informally rendered in english as manner, way. Pdf dat ik zeer interessant vond en dat mij op verdere zoektocht stuurde.
Vittorio morfino, the misunderstanding of the mode, in between hegel and spinoza new york. A thing is called finite after its kind, when it can be limited by another thing of the same nature. I highly recommend his other works, especially those on kant and his magnum opus, learning from six philosophers. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. In some translations, the scholia are referred to as notes. He also recently was awarded the 2019 harvey teaching award for outstanding instructional contributions along with fellow graduate student kelsey borrowman, and completed a book translation of vittorio morfinos the spinozamachiavelli encounter. Transindividuality and the aleatory between spinoza and althussermore. The philosophy of spinoza alfred weber b aruch benedict spinoza,1 spinosa, or despinoza, was born at amsterdam, in 1632, of portuguese jewish parents, who were, it seems, in good circumstances. This allows him to think through the relationship between ontology and politics, leading to an understanding of history as a complex and plural interweaving of different rhythms. Spinoza s political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years.
The idea of god in spinozas philosophy a study about its definition, influences and impact based on the first part of ethics. Texts include the writings of hume, descartes, bacon, berkeley, newton, locke, mill, edwards, kant, leibniz, malebranche, spinoza, hobbes, and reid. Ethics spinozapart 1 wikisource, the free online library. The translation of vittorio morfinos plural temporality. Vittorio morfino among the most curious and insistent features in the history of misunderstandings of leibnizs philosophy is the attempt to see within it a form of spinozism. Spinozas life and works 17 the violence of human emotional reactions and the lifethreatening danger of human greed, ambition, and bigotry. Occasion by vittorio morfino, translated by dave mesing spinoza series, edinburgh university press, 9781474421249 vittor io morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic spinoza machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. Read associate professor of philosophy university of southern maine box 9300 portland, maine 041049300 jason. Goldstein march 28 april 1, 2011 alcohol can be made out of many things.
A renewed interest in spinoza is blossoming internationally. Dec 02, 2014 vittorio morfino, the misunderstanding of the mode, in between hegel and spinoza new york. Morfino and zourbachvili demonstrate that spinoza is a paradoxical philosopher. Affects, actions and passions in spinoza edinburgh. Popular spinoza books meet your next favorite book. But aside from the peculiarity of infinite modes the laws on nature etc. For example, in setting out the essentials of spinoza s outlook, he makes a nice short argument that spinoza was not as is sometimes claimed an atheist. Limmagine di spinoza in germania da leibniz a marx. Body cannot determine mind to think, neither can mind determine body to motion or rest or any. Spinoza s intellectual power, which emerged shortly after 1656 in his treatise on the emendation of the intellect, must have had a long incubation. Bennett could be a poster boy for 20th century angloamerican analytical philosophy. Betraying spinoza the renegade jew who gave us modernity r.
Spinoza s life and works 17 the violence of human emotional reactions and the lifethreatening danger of human greed, ambition, and bigotry. Transindividuality and the aleatory between spinoza and althusser. Vittorio morfino university of milano bicocca academia. In book two, chapter five the discourses on livy, that the variation of sects and.
Her drawings in chapter 1s, 5 and 6 depict spinozas house o 727n 4 paviljoensgracht page 9 a, statue of spinoza page 16, the bac thk oef ne w church and spinozas tomb in the hague page 19, the portugues synagogue ien amsterdam page 185, the house where spinoz livea d in rijnsburg page 233 a, bust of spinoza page. Read associate professor of philosophy university of southern maine box 9300 portland, maine 041049300. Transindividuality and the aleatory between spinoza and althusser vittorio morfino download bok. Student and faculty accomplishments villanova university. Spinozas intellectual power, which emerged shortly after 1656 in his treatise on the emendation of the intellect, must have had a long incubation. A search query can be a title of the book, a name of the author, isbn or. This is a misunderstanding in a double sense, because in order to affirm it, the complexity of spinoza must be reduced to the same extent as the complexity of leibniz. A selection of philosophy texts by philosophers of the early modern period, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought. Ethica, work without obstacle, is a free internet application for internet and smartphones which proposes a digital and augmented edition of the ethics by spinoza 16321677.
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