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Mariana de Gainza
Materialist Variations on Spinoza
Theoretical Alliances and Political Strategies
Common assertions suppose an incompatibility between critical-dialectical philosophies and Spinozist political ontologies, and allow for an Adornian critique of Spinoza’s Ethics: to live in accordance with one’s own being is a form of compliance to dominant values. By mapping contemporary Spinozism I show that within its tensions there is a place for dialectics, one which can be read in dialogue with the Adornian gesture denouncing the purported identity between particular and universal.
Keywords: materialism; moral philosophy; ethics; logic; politics, practical; Adorno, Theodor W.; Spinoza, Baruch
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Materialist Variations on Spinoza
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Theoretical Alliances and Political Strategies
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Mariana de Gainza
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Common assertions suppose an incompatibility between critical-dialectical philosophies and Spinozist political ontologies, and allow for an Adornian critique of Spinoza’s Ethics: to live in accordance with one’s own being is a form of compliance to dominant values. By mapping contemporary Spinozism I show that within its tensions there is a place for dialectics, one which can be read in dialogue with the Adornian gesture denouncing the purported identity between particular and universal.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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2 March 2021
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materialism
moral philosophy
ethics
logic
politics, practical
Adorno, Theodor W.
Spinoza, Baruch
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© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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25
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37
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Materialism and Politics, ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayşe Yuva, Cultural Inquiry, 20 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 25–37
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References
- Adorno, Theodor W., Problems of Moral Philosophy (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001)
- Althusser, Louis, ‘On Spinoza’, in Essays in Self-Criticism, trans. by Grahame Lock (London: New Left Books, 1976), pp. 132–41
- Macherey, Pierre, Avec Spinoza. Études sur la doctrine et l’histoire du spinozisme (Paris: PUF, 1992)
- Moreau, Pierre-François, Problèmes du spinozisme (Paris: Vrin, 2006)
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, ‘To Franz Overbeck [Postmarked Sils Engd., July 30, 1881]’, in Christopher Middleton, Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), pp. 176–77
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, The Collected Works of Spinoza, ed. and trans. by Edwin Curley, 2 vols (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985–2016)
- Winnik, H. Z., ‘A Long-Lost and Recently Recovered Letter of Freud’, Israel Annals of Psychiatry, 13 (1975), pp. 1–5
- Yovel, Yirmiyahu, Spinoza and Other Heretics: The Adventures of Immanence (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989)
Cite as:
Mariana de Gainza, ‘Materialist Variations on Spinoza: Theoretical Alliances and Political Strategies’, in Materialism and Politics, ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, and Ayşe Yuva, Cultural Inquiry, 20 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021), pp. 25-37 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-20_01>