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Spinoza Contra Phenomenology essentially recasts the historical past of postwar French suggestion, as a rule presumed to were pushed by means of a critique of cause indebted to Nietzsche and Heidegger. even though the reception of phenomenology gave upward thrust to many leading edge advancements in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, now not everybody in France was once happy with this German import. This publication recounts how a chain of French philosophers used Spinoza to erect a bulwark opposed to the nominally irrationalist traits of phenomenology. From its beginnings within the interwar years, this rationalism may turn out foundational for Althusser's rethinking of Marxism and Deleuze's formidable metaphysics. there was a renewed enthusiasm for Spinozism of past due by way of those that see his paintings as one of those neo-vitalism or philosophy of existence and have an effect on. Peden counters this pattern by way of monitoring a decisive and ignored element of Spinoza's philosophy—his rationalism—in a physique of inspiration too usually presumed to have rejected cause. within the technique, he demonstrates that the virtues of Spinoza's rationalism haven't begun to be exhausted.

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The traits that distinguish Spinozist rationalism from Cartesian rationalism are of special importance to what follows; an ongoing debate about the distinction is in fact one of the central threads of the story. ” But Husserl’s choice of title also indirectly points to the significance of Spinozism. For phenomenology was quickly assimilated to a Cartesian framework in France, which meant that it became a matter of focusing on the phenomenon of subjectivity and a subject’s encounter with, or embeddedness in, the world.

It means taking seriously a conviction shared by all the protagonists of this volume—that in the end philosophical arguments are regarded as persuasive not because they seem useful but because they seem right. . Here, however, we alight on the driving tension of the narrative: the desire nevertheless to derive something useful from a philosophy that seems to be correct. For with the exception of the dispute between Alquié and Gueroult, which serves as a kind of abstract distillation of the philosophical disagreement at the heart of the story, each valorization of Spinozist rationalism is accompanied by a problematic attempt to generate a politics out of this rationalism.

In a preface written for a posthumous collection of Cavaillès’s writings, Aron recounts a memorable exchange in London with his erstwhile classmate at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Whereas others invoked partisan imperatives, be they communist, socialist, or democratic, to justify their Resistance activity or pointed instead to a general notion of national honor, for Cavaillès the Resistance was simply a question of necessity: “‘I’m a Spinozist,’ he said; ‘we must resist, fight, and confront death.

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