Spinoza, the Epicurean authority and utility in materialism
By radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context...
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Edinburgh
Edinburgh University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Spinoza studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Copyright
- Spinoza, the Epicurean
- Contents
- Reference Guide to Spinoza's Works
- Acknowledgements
- Preamble
- Introduction: Why is Spinoza an Epicurean?
- 1 Freedom as Overcoming the Fear of Death: The Dialectic of Authority and Utility in the Preface
- 2 The Power of Error: Moses, the Prophets and the People (chapters 1, 2 and 3)
- 3 Philonomianism: Law and the Origin of Finitude (chapter 4)
- 4 Political Monism: The Primacy of Utility over Authority (chapters 5 and 6)
- 5 Love your Friend as Yourself: The Neighbour and the Politics of Biblical Hermeneutics (chapters 7 to 13)
- 6 The Freedom to Philosophize: The Two Paths to Virtue (chapters 14 and 15)
- 7 Fear and Power: Natural Right and Authorization in Spinoza and Hobbes (chapter 16)
- 8 Theocracy: On the State of Authority (chapters 17 and 18)
- 9 The Authority to Abrogate: The Two Paths to Virtue and the Internal Enemy (chapters 19 and 20)
- Conclusion: The Limitation of Spinoza's Epicureanism
- Bibliography
- Index