Spinoza contra phenomenology : French rationalism from Cavaillès to Deleuze /

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Author / Creator:Peden, Knox, author.
Imprint:Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11230350
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ISBN:9780804791366
0804791368
9780804787413
0804787417
9780804791342
0804791341
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. This book recounts how a series of French philosophers used Spinoza to erect a bulwark against the nominally irrationalist tendencies of phenomenology. From its beginnings in the interwar years, this rationa.
Other form:Print version: Peden, Knox. Spinoza contra phenomenology 9780804787413