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.
Subject:	Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677 -- Influence. Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677. Philosophy, French -- 20th century. Rationalism. Phenomenology. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Phenomenology. Philosophy, French. Rationalism. Electronic books.
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. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Spinozism : a source of enthusiasm
From consciousness to the concept : the Spinozism of Jean Cavaillès
Spinoza contra Descartes : Martial Gueroult versus Ferdinand Alquié
From Stalinism to asceticism : Jean-Toussaint Desanti between Spinoza and Husserl
Recuperating science : the sources of Louis Althusser's Spinozism
Redefining philosophy : the development of Louis Althusser's Spinozism
Toward a science of the singular : Gilles Deleuze between Heidegger and Spinoza
Nothing is possible : the strange Spinozism of Gilles Deleuze
Conclusion : the sense of Spinozism.

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