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Experience and Eternity in Spinoza / Pierre-Francois Moreau, Robert Boncardo.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Spinoza Studies : SPSTPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (688 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474438902
  • 9781474438919
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 199.492 23
LOC classification:
  • B3998 .M6713 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Can’t Stop the Feeling (of Being Eternal) -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I Certitudo: The Journey of Philosophy -- Introduction -- 1 The Status of the Prologue -- 2 The Stages of Certainty -- 3 Common Life and Perishable Goods -- 4 The True Good -- 5 The ‘Animus’ and Love -- 6 The Circles of Experience -- II Experientia: Determination and Fields of Experience -- 7 Determinations and Limits of Experience -- 8 Fields of Experience: Language -- 9 Fields of Experience: The Passions -- 10 Fields of Experience: History -- III Aeternitas: The Experience of Eternity -- 11 A Metaphysical Experience? -- Conclusion: The Constitution of Spinoza’s System -- An Infinite Internal to the Finite: An Interview with Pierre-François Moreau on Experience and Eternity in Spinoza -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Concepts -- Index Locorum
Summary: The first English-language translation of Pierre-François Moreau’s seminal study, which fundamentally transforms our inherited understanding of Spinoza’s philosophyPresents a systematic reappraisal of Spinoza’s philosophical system around the enigmatic concept of experienceDemonstrates how Spinoza’s concept of experience is essential to an understanding of the Ethics, including such crucial concepts as necessity, infinitude and eternityBridges the divide in contemporary scholarship between Spinoza the affect theorist and Spinoza the hyper-rationalistWhat could it mean to feel eternal? Through a detailed study of Spinoza’s concept of ‘experience’, Moreau shows how Spinoza extends the power of reason to domains frequently seen as irrational, from common life to history, language to the passions. Where previously Spinoza’s thought was identified exclusively with the geometrical method, Moreau demonstrates that by mobilising his unique account of ‘experience’, Spinoza is able to capture the singularity of individuals, their lives, languages, passions and societies. With readings of each of Spinoza’s most famous works, from the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect to the Ethics, but also unprecedented studies of minor writings such as the Hebrew Grammar, Moreau renews our understanding of Spinoza’s philosophy by showing us how his geometrical and experiential methods operate simultaneously. Finally, this new vision of Spinoza’s philosophy illuminates the enigmatic experience of eternity mentioned in Book V of Spinoza’s Ethics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Can’t Stop the Feeling (of Being Eternal) -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I Certitudo: The Journey of Philosophy -- Introduction -- 1 The Status of the Prologue -- 2 The Stages of Certainty -- 3 Common Life and Perishable Goods -- 4 The True Good -- 5 The ‘Animus’ and Love -- 6 The Circles of Experience -- II Experientia: Determination and Fields of Experience -- 7 Determinations and Limits of Experience -- 8 Fields of Experience: Language -- 9 Fields of Experience: The Passions -- 10 Fields of Experience: History -- III Aeternitas: The Experience of Eternity -- 11 A Metaphysical Experience? -- Conclusion: The Constitution of Spinoza’s System -- An Infinite Internal to the Finite: An Interview with Pierre-François Moreau on Experience and Eternity in Spinoza -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Concepts -- Index Locorum

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The first English-language translation of Pierre-François Moreau’s seminal study, which fundamentally transforms our inherited understanding of Spinoza’s philosophyPresents a systematic reappraisal of Spinoza’s philosophical system around the enigmatic concept of experienceDemonstrates how Spinoza’s concept of experience is essential to an understanding of the Ethics, including such crucial concepts as necessity, infinitude and eternityBridges the divide in contemporary scholarship between Spinoza the affect theorist and Spinoza the hyper-rationalistWhat could it mean to feel eternal? Through a detailed study of Spinoza’s concept of ‘experience’, Moreau shows how Spinoza extends the power of reason to domains frequently seen as irrational, from common life to history, language to the passions. Where previously Spinoza’s thought was identified exclusively with the geometrical method, Moreau demonstrates that by mobilising his unique account of ‘experience’, Spinoza is able to capture the singularity of individuals, their lives, languages, passions and societies. With readings of each of Spinoza’s most famous works, from the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect to the Ethics, but also unprecedented studies of minor writings such as the Hebrew Grammar, Moreau renews our understanding of Spinoza’s philosophy by showing us how his geometrical and experiential methods operate simultaneously. Finally, this new vision of Spinoza’s philosophy illuminates the enigmatic experience of eternity mentioned in Book V of Spinoza’s Ethics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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