Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dimitris VardoulakisSeries:Spinoza StudiesPublish date:2022-08-09Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474476058ISBN-10:1474476058UPC:9781474476058Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Individual Philosophers, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCEZ6VS3BD
Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism
Through a radical new reading of the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the major source of Spinoza's materialism is the Epicurean tradition that re-emerges in modernity when manuscripts by Epicurus and Lucretius are rediscovered. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of...
Series: Spinoza Studies
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781474476058ISBN-10:1474476058UPC:9781474476058Book Category:PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Individual Philosophers, Ethics & Moral PhilosophyBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.75 inchesWeight:1.1111Product ID:SCEZ6VS3BD
Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Doppelg?nger: Literature's Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (Fordham UP, 2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter (SUNY, 2016) and Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on...
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
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