Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs

Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 291
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ISBN-10 : 9781316300473
ISBN-13 : 1316300471
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Download or read book Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs written by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spinoza's heritage has been occluded by his incorporation into the single, western, philosophical canon formed and enforced by theologico-political condemnation, and his heritage is further occluded by controversies whose secular garb shields their religious origins. 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. By focusing on Marx, Benjamin, and Adorno, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein explores the manner in which Spinoza's radical critique of religion shapes materialist critiques of the philosophy of history. Dobbs-Weinstein argues that two radically opposed notions of temporality and history are at stake for these thinkers, an onto-theological future-oriented one and a political one oriented to the past for the sake of the present or, more precisely, for the sake of actively resisting the persistent barbarism at the heart of culture.


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