"Hegel or Spinoza" is the first English-language translation of
the modern classic "Hegel ou Spinoza." 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" is a surgically precise interrogation of the
points of misreading of Spinoza by Hegel. 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. In doing so, Macherey exposes the
limited and situated truth of Hegel's perspective--which reveals
more about Hegel himself than about his object of analysis. Against
Hegel's characterization of Spinoza's work as immobile, Macherey
offers a lively alternative that upsets the accepted historical
progression of philosophical knowledge. He finds in Spinoza an
immanent philosophy that is not subordinated to the guarantee of an
a priori truth.
Not simply authorizing a particular reading--a "good" Spinoza
against a "bad" Hegel--"Hegel or Spinoza" initiates an encounter
that produces a new understanding, a common truth that emerges in
the interval that separates the two.
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