When Spinoza Met Marx

Experiments in Nonhumanist Activity

AvTracie Matysik

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Explores concepts that bring together the thinking of Spinoza and Marx.Karl Marx was a fiery revolutionary theorist who heralded the imminent demise of capitalism, while Spinoza was a contemplative philosopher who preached rational understanding and voiced skepticism about open rebellion. Spinoza criticized all teleological ideas as anthropomorphic fantasies, while Marxism came to be associated expressly with teleological historical development. Why, then, were socialists of the German nineteenth century consistently drawn to Spinoza as their philosophical guide? Tracie Matysik shows how the metaphorical meeting of Spinoza and Marx arose out of an intellectual conundrum around the meaning of activity. How is it, exactly, that humans can be fully determined creatures but also able to change their world? To address this paradox, many revolutionary theorists came to think of activity in the sense of Spinoza—as relating. Matysik follows these Spinozist-socialist intellectual experiments as they unfolded across the nineteenth century, drawing lessons from them that will be meaningful for the contemporary world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-01-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:594 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Life of Ideas
Antal sidor:368
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226822334

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Mer om författaren

Tracie Matysik is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and a fellow of the Brian F. Bolton Professorship in Secular Studies. She is the author of Reforming the Moral Subject: Ethics and Sexuality in Central Europe, 1890–1930.

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"Matysik’s writing is very clear and free of jargon. The book is well organized and extensively documented with more than 80 pages of endnotes and bibliography. There is a thoughtfully constructed index."

Innehållsförteckning

Abbreviations, Citational Shortcuts, and a Note on TranslationPrefaceIntroduction: When Spinoza Met Marx, or Activity in a Nonhumanist KeyChapter 1. The Headless Revolution: Heinrich Heine’s Ethos of “Vigorous Repose”Chapter 2. Love and Friendship: Berthold Auerbach and Moses Hess on Understanding and ActivityChapter 3. When Marx Met Spinoza: Determination, Contingency, and SubstanceChapter 4. Spinoza against Bismarck, or Johann Jacoby and the Pursuit of Monist DemocracyChapter 5. An Ethics of Natural Necessity: Jakob Stern, Free Thought, and German Social DemocracyChapter 6. What Is “Nature”? Georgi Plekhanov and the Dilemmas of Consistent MaterialismConclusion: The Persistence of Vigorous ReposeAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex