Uno de los asuntos aún poco estudiados en torno a la filosofía francesa del siglo XX tiene que ver con cómo tendencias críticas del racionalismo, como la fenomenología y el existencialismo, no fueron entre ellos el resultado de una mera recepción de la filosofía alemana, sino que tuvieron una tradición propia detrás, con críticos de la razón como Pascal, pero también con una resistente confianza en ella procedente de su racionalismo, con Descartes a la cabeza. Los mismos alemanes no fueron ajenos a dicha tradición. Recuérdese, por ejemplo, la influencia de Pascal o de Voltaire en Nietzsche, así como la decisiva influencia de Descartes en Husserl. De cualquier modo, entre los filósofos franceses del siglo XX, algunos quisieron inscribirse más decididamente en el racionalismo, insistiendo en su complejidad a veces ignorada y llevándola a las demandas propias del siglo. Esos son los filósofos que el profesor Knox Peden recoge en este volumen, pero delimitando su trabajo no de la mano de Descartes, sino de la de Spinoza. Las razones por las que estos racionalistas contemporáneos dirigieron su atención hacia el "judío maldito" son múltiples y varían en cada uno de ellos, pero pueden ser entendidas a partir de su asimilación crítica del cartesianismo, resaltando la importancia de las pulsiones y teniendo una mirada más realista. En esa línea, fueron Louis Althusser y Giles Deleuze -autores con los que Peden cierra su estudio- quienes reflejaron una mayor influencia de Spinoza, llevando sus ideas al terreno de la ética y la política en la Europa de la posguerra.
Título: SPINOZA CONTRA PHENOMENOLOGY. FRENCH RATIONALISM FROM CAVAILLÈS TO DELEUZE
Autor: KNOX PEDEN
Formato: 15 x 23 cm.
Páginas: 376
Editorial: Stanford University Press
Ciudad: Redwood City
Año: 2014
ISBN: 978-08-0479-134-2
Reseña editorial:
Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, which is typically presumed by detractors and celebrants alike to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted above all to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of German phenomenology gave rise to many of the most innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. The book recounts how a series of French philosophers used Spinoza's rationalism to erect a bulwark against the nominally irrationalist tendencies of Husserl's and Heidegger's thought in France. From its beginnings in the interwar years in philosophy of science and the history of philosophy, this Spinozist rationalism would prove foundational for Louis Althusser's rethinking of Marxism and Gilles Deleuze's ambitious metaphysics. There has been a renewed enthusiasm for Spinozism in various quarters of late by those who would see his work as a kind of neo-vitalism or philosophy of life and affect. Peden bucks the trend by tracking a decisive and neglected aspect of Spinoza's philosophy—his rationalism—in a body of thought too often presumed to have rejected reason. In the process, he demonstrates that the critical resources of Spinoza's rationalism have yet to be exhausted today.
Autor: KNOX PEDEN
Formato: 15 x 23 cm.
Páginas: 376
Editorial: Stanford University Press
Ciudad: Redwood City
Año: 2014
ISBN: 978-08-0479-134-2
Reseña editorial:
Spinoza Contra Phenomenology fundamentally recasts the history of postwar French thought, which is typically presumed by detractors and celebrants alike to have been driven by a critique of reason indebted above all to Nietzsche and Heidegger. Although the reception of German phenomenology gave rise to many of the most innovative developments in French philosophy, from existentialism to deconstruction, not everyone in France was pleased with this German import. The book recounts how a series of French philosophers used Spinoza's rationalism to erect a bulwark against the nominally irrationalist tendencies of Husserl's and Heidegger's thought in France. From its beginnings in the interwar years in philosophy of science and the history of philosophy, this Spinozist rationalism would prove foundational for Louis Althusser's rethinking of Marxism and Gilles Deleuze's ambitious metaphysics. There has been a renewed enthusiasm for Spinozism in various quarters of late by those who would see his work as a kind of neo-vitalism or philosophy of life and affect. Peden bucks the trend by tracking a decisive and neglected aspect of Spinoza's philosophy—his rationalism—in a body of thought too often presumed to have rejected reason. In the process, he demonstrates that the critical resources of Spinoza's rationalism have yet to be exhausted today.
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