Wegner as my title indicates, i hope in the pages that follow to offer a few productive alternatives to the stark opposition, marx or spinoza. Following pierre macherey and michel foucault, though, i challenge zizeks perspective by. Macherey s work enters this debate by attempting to save marxism from this apparent historical refutation. Knox pedens spinoza contra phenomenology is now the definitive statement on what it meant for some of french philosophys most influential 20th century thinkers to begin, in hegels words, at the standpoint of spinozism. It is an enviable work of scholarship, both massive in its intellectual scope and nuanced in its attention to detail. Indeed, machereys meticulous undoing of hegels reading of spinoza, in order to expose a deeper connection between the two philosophies, nicely accentuates some of the tensions framing recent discussions within contemporary continental political philosophy, where the perceived. His psychology one might almost say is a moral psychology. Pierre macherey explains the necessity of hegels misreading in the kernel of thought that is indigestible for hegel, which makes the spinozist system move in a way that hegel cannot grasp. Macherey hegel reads spinoza georg wilhelm friedrich. A former student of louis althusser and collaborator on the influential volume reading capital, macherey is a central figure in the development of french poststructuralism and marxism. Hegel and deleuze on the metaphysical interpretation of the calculus. Hegel o spinoza pierre macherey baruch spinoza georg. This pdf may not be placed on any website or other. As warren montag argues, it marked a divergence in the philosophical paths of pierre macherey and his mentor and colleague louis althusser, each responding in his own way to the violent misreading of their work as a socalled structuralism and the resurgence of humanism or.
University of minnesota press, 2011 abstract pierre. In hegel ou spinoza,1 pierre macherey challenges the influence of hegels reading of spinoza by stressing the degree to which spinoza eludes the grasp of the hegelian dialectical progression of the history of philosophy. Macherey hegel reads spinoza free download as pdf file. In reading some of the recent literature on spinoza, i found frequent reference to pierre machereys book, hegel or spinoza, first published in french in 1977. Substance, subject, and critical marxism ted stolze abstract. This book, which presents spinozas main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. With a life of spinoza and an introduction by joseph ratner the modern library of the worlds best books, 60.
The philosophy of spinoza alfred weber b aruch benedict spinoza,1 spinosa, or despinoza, was born at amsterdam, in 1632, of portuguese jewish parents, who were, it seems, in good circumstances. For the following that developed around spinozas ideas, see spinozism. The collected works of spinoza provides, for the first time in english, a truly satisfactory edition of all of spinozas writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the originallanguage texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosophers work. Licensed to youtube by sme, wmg on behalf of sony classical. As warren montag argues, it marked a divergence in the philosophical paths of pierre macherey and his mentor and. This is a most timely translation of pierre machereys 1979 work hegel ou spinoza. Hegel or spinoza the philosophy of spinoza has been receiving a great deal of attention recently, both in europe and the united states. Hegel ou spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear near hiatus in pierre machereys work. Philosophy of science and mathematics, misc in 17th18th century. Hegel, and marx, spinoza often appears less as a precursor than as part of what the critical. Metaphysics and ethics donald rutherford ucsd the god of the hebrew bible is a sovereign lawgiver to the jewish people. Hegel or spinoza is the first englishlanguage translation of the modern classic hegel ou spinoza.
It is difficult to separate the two, since the history of thought is history and, although it be a question of the philosophy of spinoza, the. Spinozas philosophy encompasses nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics. In the face of an intensifying climate crisis, our experience of the. A dialectics of encounter hegel or spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear nearhiatus in macherey s work. Spinoza begins part 3 by criticizing writers who make a distinction between humans and nature or, in more. In 1979 pierre macherey asked, intentionally messing with the chronology, hegel or spinoza. Pierre macherey explains the necessity of hegels misreading in the kernel of thought that is indigestible for hegel, which makes the spinozist. Pierre macherey provides a surgically precise interrogation of the points of misreading of spinoza by hegel and initiates an encounter that produces a new understanding, a common truth that emerges in the interval that separates the two. Indeed, machereys meticulous undoing of hegels reading.
The philosophy of descartes underwent a great variety of unspeculative developments, but in benedict spinoza a direct successor to this philosopher may be found, and one who carried on the cartesian principle to its furthest logical. Spinozas theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. From spinoza to hegel a foundation of contemporary panentheism applied to the sciencetheology dialogue research pdf available july. Spinoza wants to explain mental phenomena through their primary causes because a knowledge of mans nature is the radical cure for his ills. Slavoj zizek, pierre macherey, hegels critique of spinoza, marxist reception of spinoza, marxist theories of subjectivity, marxist philosophy. Macherey is a central figure in the development of french. This will be the reading for saturday, september 21s meeting. Pierre macherey 1995 abstract this article has no associated abstract. God commands his people to act, or not to act, in certain ways and holds them responsible for their actions, punishing disobedience and rewarding obedience. In accordance with the wishes of his father he studied theology, but soon showed a decided preference for free philosophical speculation. A dialectics of encounter hegel or spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear nearhiatus in machereys work. In particular, montag 1997, 1998b, 1999 describes perceptively the multifaceted role of louis althusser as a catalyst for the opening up of that theoretical. Spinozas method in psychology is dialectical, but his interest is practical.
Published in french in 1979, it has been widely influential, particularly in the work of the philosophers alain badiou, antonio negri, and gilles deleuze. His answer, of course, was spinoza, and his reason for putting spinoza after hegel was to suggest that spinoza had been capable of reading hegel in a certain sense, and was in fact a better reader of hegel than. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Hegels history of philosophy marxists internet archive. In this paper, i take up the theme of spinoza s ars vivendi in relation to its temporality. Chapter 5, the problem of the attributes by pierre macherey, originally appeared as chapter 2 of hegel an spinozi. Pierre macherey not only demonstrates how hegel misread spinoza, but also offers against the backdrop of the hegelian dialectic an exciting and original.
Slavoj zizek has revived and reaffirmed hegels critique of spinoza, adequate account of subjectivity. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Spinozas thought, it is not merely because there are sign of unity in his work, but further because his critics have found such an amazing diversity there. Hegel or spinoza is a surgically precise interrogation of the points of misreading of spinoza by hegel. Pierre macherey explains the necessity of hegels misreading in the kernel of thought that is indigestible for hegel, which makes the spinozist system move in.
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