Sharp’s groundbreaking argument critically engages with important contemporary thinkers—including deep ecologists, feminists, and race and critical theorists—making Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization vital for a wide range ...
In this new edition ofhis classic Spinoza (1951), with substantial new material added, the late Sir Stuart Hamsphire offers a masterly introduction to a supreme thinker, and to his enormous influence on philosophy as it has been practised ...
... Spinozists and the Dutch Reformed Church ( 1660-1750 ) ( Hilversum , 2004 ) , esp . chap . 3 about “ Spinozists in the church . ” Henri A. Krop , “ Der Spinozismus ( 1680–1730 ) , ” in Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts , 1 : 1145–55 ...
... Spinozists questioned the universality of the “human” altogether, emphasizing rather the unique makeup of each singular entity.42 In the early nineteenth century, the language of pantheism, too, served the nonhumanist project, enabling ...
... Spinozists . The new Spinozists hold as a " basic principle , " as he himself does , that matter is sensitive ; the old Spinozists do not . Moreover , says Diderot , the new Spinozists hold that matter alone exists , and that its ...
... Spinozists , or acted like Spinozists , by ' semirational ' means . The implication , presum- ably , is that such an outcome would be more desirable than that they might continue in unpurified ' popular religion ' . This is quite ...
... Spinozists , as Vico states in one of his memorable aphorisms , cannot really reason of commonwealths or laws . Their political philosophy is suspect as much as that of the Epicureans and the Stoics , " who [ in this respect the Spinozists ...
... Spinozists - is " little more than a sub - personal reservoir of power , somewhat akin to the impersonalism of Oriental Vedantism . Being- itself is a pure absolute , devoid of consciousness of life . " 62 In using the term " sub ...
... Spinozists , however , was what he expressed in his very argument against them : " rien ne peut arriver qui soit contraire ą ces Lois . " 25 It may be said that his chief objection was the method by which the Spinozists arrived 23. B ...
... Spinozists cause to complain (though they might do so anyway) that we imputed something to them that was utterly foreign to their way of thinking, we have preferred to avoid this terminology, which even they must admit in the received ...