Hegel or spinoza is the first englishlanguage translation of the modern classic hegel ou spinoza. As warren montag argues, it marked a divergence in the philosophical paths of pierre macherey and his mentor and. Pierre macherey not only demonstrates how hegel misread spinoza, but also offers against the backdrop of the hegelian dialectic an exciting and original. Macherey s work enters this debate by attempting to save marxism from this apparent historical refutation.
Hegel or spinoza is first of all an interrogation, with surgical precision, of the exact points of misreading of spinoza by hegelan interrogation that attests, contra hegel, to the immanent power of spi nozas work. 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. This book, which presents spinoza s main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. 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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Here, macherey shows how spinoza s system cannot be og by the oppositions hegel places upon it. Society and space is an international, interdisciplinary scholarly and political project. Macherey, pierre hegel ou spinoza georg wilhelm friedrich. Spinoza s theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. Hegel o spinoza pierre macherey baruch spinoza georg. 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.
In what ways are the philosophies of spinoza and nietzsche. It begins by challenging the teleology of hegels project. Chapter 5, the problem of the attributes by pierre macherey, originally appeared as chapter 2 of hegel an spinozi. Indeed, macherey s meticulous undoing of hegel s 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. I do not read latin nor am i an expert on spinoza or his ethicha but the french translation helps me to put other translations in, e. Ainsi nous nkchappons pas ii cette double 1 1, 1 1.
Substance, subject, and critical marxism ted stolze abstract. 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. The philosophy of spinoza, selected from his chief works. Body cannot determine mind to think, neither can mind determine body to motion or rest or any. It earned spinoza an enduring reputation as one of the most important and original thinkers of the seventeenth century. 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. Spinoza, une philosophie a plusieurs voix, philosophique, 1 1998. Baruch spinoza s philosophy encompasses nearly every area of philosophical discourse, including metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. Society and space 2011, volume 29, issue 2, pages 223 236 cf. A dialectics of encounter hegel or spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear nearhiatus in macherey s work. This is a most timely translation of pierre macherey s 1979 work hegel ou spinoza. Macherey hegel reads spinoza free download as pdf file.
A great little book on spinoza is deleuzes spinoza. Following pierre macherey and michel foucault, though, i challenge zizeks perspective by showing that. Deleuze sees both spinoza and nietzsche as philosophers who saw the world in terms of power relations. He find within spinoza many similarities to nietzsche. Against hegels characterization of spinozas work as immobile, macherey offers a lively alternative that upsets the accepted historical progression of philosophical. Hegel or spinoza the philosophy of spinoza has been receiving a great deal of attention recently, both in europe and the united states.
Hegel or spinoza is a surgically precise interrogation of the points of misreading of spinoza by hegel. Published in french in 1979, it has been widely influential, particularly in the work of the philosophers alain badiou, antonio negri, and gilles deleuze. Hegel or spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear nearhiatus in machereys work. Although the reception of phenomenology gave rise to many innovative developments in french philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in france was pleased with this german import. Pierre macherey explains the necessity of hegel s misreading in the kernel of thought that is indigestible for hegel, which makes the spinozist system move in a way that hegel cannot grasp. With a life of spinoza and an introduction by joseph ratner the modern library of the worlds best books, 60. New readers of this translation of macherey s text may find in it many reiterations of contemporary discussions and, perhapsa way to revisit, from a new angle, spioza of the themes and concepts presented there. Hegel ou spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear near hiatus in pierre macherey s work. Spinoza contra phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar french thought, typically presumed to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted to nietzsche and heidegger. Hegel or spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eightyear nearhiatus in macherey s work. Nov 14, 2011 hegel or spinoza is a surgically precise interrogation of the points of misreading of spinoza by hegel. Slavoj zizek has revived and reaffirmed hegel s critique of spinoza, adequate account of subjectivity.
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