{"product_id":"spinoza-and-the-origins-of-modern-critical-theory-paperback-softback-9780631175575","title":"Spinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631175575","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSpinoza and the Origins of Modern Critical Theory\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Norris (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631175575, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 November 1990\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e332 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.7 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book offers a detailed account of Spinoza's influence on various schools of present-day critical thought. That influence extends from Althusserian Marxism to hermeneutics, deconstruction, narrative poetics, new historicism, and the unclassifiable writings of a thinker like Giles Deleuze. The author combines a close exegesis of Spinoza's texts with a series of chapters that trace the evolution of literary theory from its period of high scientific rigour in the mid-1960s to its latest \"postmodern\", neopragmatist or anti-theoretical phase. He examines the thought of Althusser, Macherey and Deleuze as well as others (including the new historicists) who have registered the impact of his pioneering work without any overt acknowledgement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e On the one hand, theorists like Althusser and Macherey could celebrate Spinoza as the first philosopher before Marx to understand the need for a riorous distinction between science (or \"theoretical practice\") and ideology (or the realm of lived experience subject to various forms of imaginary error of misrecognition). On the other, Deleuze makes Spinoza the hero of his crusade against theories of whatever kind - Kantian, Marxist, Freudian, post structuralist - which always end up by imposing some abstract order of concepts and categories on the libidinal flux of \"desiring production\", or the \"body-without-organs\" of anarchic instinctual drives.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface vi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor's Preface 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Note on Texts 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Spinoza versus Hegel: the Althusserian Moment 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Of Truth and Error in a Spinozist Sense: Deleuze, Derrida, de Man 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Language, Truth and Historical Understanding 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The Claim of Reason: Spinoza as a Left-Cartesian 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 From Scriptural Hermeneutics to Secular Critique 177\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Fiction, Philosophy and the Way of Ideas 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Why Spinoza Now? The Critique of Revelation Revisited 251\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes: Christopher Norris: A Selected Bibliography, 1974-1989 Compiled by Holly Henry and Brenda O'Boyle 303\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 319\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52316771877144,"sku":"9780631175575","price":34.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780631175575.jpg?v=1781824364","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/spinoza-and-the-origins-of-modern-critical-theory-paperback-softback-9780631175575","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}