Gilles Deleuze

Spinoza

Practical Philosophy
Übersetzer: Hurley, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nonfiction. Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being of this substance. 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 propositions and ontological propositions. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. Recent attention has been drawn to Spinoza by deep ecologists such as Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher, and this new reading of Spinoza by Deleuze lends itself to a radical ecological ethic. As Robert Hurley says in his introduction, Deleuze opens us to the idea that the elements of the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. One wonders, finally, whether Man might be defined as a territory, a set of boundaries, a limit on existence.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: City Lights Books
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 139mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 184g
• ISBN-13: 9780872862180
• ISBN-10: 0872862186
• Artikelnr.: 21556826

Autorenporträt

Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher whose writings influenced many philosophical disciplines such as literary theory, post-structuralism and postmodernism. He also taught philosophy at the University of Paris at Vicennes. Robert Hurley was a translator for many French philosophers including Michael Foucault (History of Sexuality), Gilles Deleuze and George Bataille (Theory of Religion).