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Spinoza, the Epicurean - Authority and Utility in Materialism (Paperback)
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Spinoza, the Epicurean - Authority and Utility in Materialism (Paperback)
Series: Spinoza Studies
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Through a radical new reading of the Theological Political
Treatise, Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that the Epicurean influence
on Spinoza has profound implications for his conception of politics
and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project,
set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative
genealogy of materialism.Vardoulakis shows that the major source of
Spinoza's materialism is the Epicurean tradition that re-emerges in
modernity when manuscripts by Epicurus and Lucretius are
rediscovered. Central to this new reading of Spinoza are the theory
of practical judgment, understood as the calculation of utility,
and its implications for a theory of democracy that is resolutely
positioned against authority.
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