Published in french in 1979, it has been widely influential, particularly in the work of the philosophers alain badiou, antonio negri, and gilles deleuze. Althusser, spinoza and revolution in philosophy, voices of the left, london. Click download or read online button to spinoza s political psychology book pdf for free now. 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. Hegel or spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear nearhiatus in macherey s work. 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. Verso books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the englishspeaking world. This chapter examines hegels use of the phrase alle bestimmheit ist negation negation as an almost magical formula that summarizes the entire framework of spinozism. Negri offers the notion of absolute democracy as a practical means to grasp the linkage between ontology, ethics, and politics in spinozas. Macherey shows us a spinoza that preemptively resists and challenges hegels understanding of spirit as subject realising itself through selfnegation and contradiction. This first collection of his philosophical writings to be published in english discloses the full range of machereys interventions, testifying to his signal status as one of frances leading.
With the exception of false elements from the domain of strict empiricism, hegels totalizing. Hegel or spinoza is a surgically precise interrogation of the points of misreading of spinoza by hegel. His work is influential in literary theory and continental philosophy in. Pierre macherey, who had represented the althusserian position at an earlier meeting on the question in choisyleroi. Negri this 1 think as as a of ry rich fi gwgh on that of. According to hegel, one philosophy is necessarily superior because it follows. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them.
Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Spinozas philosophy is largely contained in two books. Spinoza fue l l a m a d o a q u u n a vez, pero en vano, c o m o usted s i n duda sabe. Hegels idealist spinoza pierre macherey in avec spinoza. 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 merits, and precise political. This essay celebrates the originality and influence of antonio negris revolutionary interpretation of dutchjewish philosopher baruch spinoza in his books the savage anomaly 1981 and subversive spinoza 1992. Pierre macherey october 31, 2015 pdf it is impossible at the present time to write history without using a whole range of concepts directly or indirectly linked to marxs thought and situating oneself within a horizon of thought which has been defined and described by marx.
Only a superficial resemblance exists between the truth of mathematics and the truth of philosophy, except during spinozas era when mathematical reasoning seemed like the strongest weapon against the authority. One of the early thinkers of the enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions. He is one of the coauthors of reading capital and belonged to althussers inner circle. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Pierre macherey is professor of philosophy at the university of lille iii. Pierre machereys hegel or spinoza 1979 appears to propose a bifurcation in the history of thought. Alexandre matheron on militant reason and intellectual love of god ted stolze. Pdf pierre machereys map of spinozas ethics translation ted. Discover everything scribd has to offer, including books and audiobooks from major publishers. Hegel or spinoza is the first englishlanguage translation of the modern classic hegel ou spinoza. Following pierre macherey and michel foucault, though, i challenge zizeks perspective by showing that spinoza proposed an alternative view of the self that turns out to be more useful than hegels for the development of a critical marxism.
Hegel or spinoza the philosophy of spinoza has been receiving a great deal of attention recently, both in europe and the united states. Slavoj zizek, pierre macherey, hegels critique of spinoza, marxist. Through the lenses of althusser and macherey, spinozas philosophy. It seeks to understand what kind of logic leads hegel to attribute this phrase to spinoza, making it the principal marker of their distinction. Best known for his work in literary criticism, pierre macherey has, over the past two decades, produced a series of original philosophical works. A theory of literary production pierre macherey download. But this provocative title does little justice, in fact, to the complex and overdetermined relations between these two philosophical systems, relations that macherey draws out. The philosophy of spinoza has been receiving a great deal of attention recently, both in europe and the united states. Negri produces a genuinely immanent and affirmative reading by identifying with spinoza, emphasizing his resistance in advance to the hegelian dialectic and his challenge to the. Download pdf spinoza s political psychology free online. In a materialist way ranges over machereys writings on philosophy and theory, critiques of the work of major figures in contemporary french thought such as lacan, foucoult and canguilhem, and analyses of the work of spinoza.
Download spinoza s political psychology ebook pdf or read online books in pdf, epub, and mobi format. Hegel o spinoza pierre macherey baruch spinoza georg. This is a most timely translation of pierre machereys 1979 work hegel ou spinoza. His books in english are hegel or spinoza, a theory of literary production, in a materialist way, and the object of literature. To see the presence of spinoza, louis althusser once quipped, one must at least have heard of him. Revisiting a marxist c r c r encounter with spinoza. In reading some of the recent literature on spinoza, i found frequent reference to pierre macherey s book, hegel or spinoza, first published in french in 1977. Pierre machereys map of spinozas ethics translation. Pierre macherey, history and novel in balzacs the peasants. Spinoza and the case for philosophy by elhanan yakira. 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.
Negris groundbreaking contribution in the savage anomaly lies in the connection between the thought of spinoza and the development of capitalism in the dutch republic of the seventeenth century. Document information click to expand document information. 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, perhaps more correctly, an. 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. Chapter 5, the problem of the attributes by pierre macherey, originally. Redmarks, 2019 italian and greek translations 2018. Hegel or spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear nearhiatus in machereys work. 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.
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