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Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs

Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs

Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1107094917
ISBN13: 9781107094918
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 17 2015
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
Spinoza's heritage has been occluded by his incorporation into the single, western, philosophical canon formed and enforced by theologico-political condemnation, and his heritage is further occluded by controversies whose secular garb shields their religious origins. By situating Spinoza's thought in a materialist Aristotelian tradition, this book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza's thought and its consequences materially and historically rather than metaphysically. By focusing on Marx, Benjamin, and Adorno, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein explores the manner in which Spinoza's radical critique of religion shapes materialist critiques of the philosophy of history. Dobbs-Weinstein argues that two radically opposed notions of temporality and history are at stake for these thinkers, an onto-theological future-oriented one, and a political one oriented to the past for the sake of the present or, more precisely, for the sake of actively resisting the persistent barbarism at the heart of culture.

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