Spinoza: The Ethics of an Outlaw

Voorkant
Bloomsbury Publishing, 9 feb 2017 - 200 pagina's
Spinoza is among the most controversial and asymmetrical thinkers in the tradition and history of modern European philosophy. Since the 17th century, his work has aroused some of the fiercest and most intense polemics in the discipline. From his expulsion from the synagogue and onwards, Spinoza has never ceased to embody the secular, heretical and self-loathing Jew. Ivan Segré, a philosopher and celebrated scholar of the Talmud, discloses the conservative underpinnings that have animated Spinoza's numerable critics and antagonists.

Through a close reading of Leo Strauss and several contemporary Jewish thinkers, such as Jean-Claude Milner and Benny Levy (Sartre's last secretary), Spinoza: the Ethics of an Outlaw aptly delineates the common cause of Spinoza's contemporary censors: an explicit hatred of reason and its emancipatory potential. Spinoza's radical heresy lies in his rejection of any and all blind adherence to Biblical Law, and in his plea for the freedom and autonomy of thought. Segré reclaims Spinoza as a faithful interpreter of the revolutionary potential contained within the Old Testament.
 

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Part One The Philosopher Election and Hatred Spinoza and the Bourgeois Theorists
1
Introduction
3
1 Discourse on Method
11
2 The Song of the Sign
23
3 Kingship
35
4 On Contradiction
47
Part Two Spinozas Bible
59
Introduction
61
7 The Origin of the Law
95
8 True Otherness
109
9 The Masquerade
121
10 The Tree of Knowledge
133
Epilogue
155
The Spectres Manifesto
159
Notes
161
Index
183

5 The At Judaei Manifesto
71
6 A Christ without the Passion
81

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Ivan Segré is a doctor in philosophy and student of the Talmud who lives in Israel. He is the author of Qu'appelle-ton penser Auschwitz? (2009) and co-editor (with Alain Badiou and Eric Hazan) of Reflections on Anti-Semitism (2013).

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