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Edinburgh University Press The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz Spinoza and Hume
The works of Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume show that thought is not, as such, a matter of consciousness. Gil Morejon explores the significance of this insight for their conceptions of freedom and ethics.
£19.99
Edinburgh University Press Outlaws and Spies: Legal Exclusion in Law and Literature
£85.00
Edinburgh University Press The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume
These three early modern philosophers understood that minds necessarily involve ideas and patterns of thinking that are not conscious. Gil Morejon shows that in this way they sharply distinguish themselves from other major early modern thinkers whose conceptions of the mind tended to identify thinking with consciousness, such as Descartes, Malebranche and Locke. This understanding of the thinking mind as conscious remains popular even today. By contrast, Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume argue instead that thought is not, as such, a matter of consciousness. Morejon explores the significance of this insight for their conceptions of freedom and ethics. By systematically and creatively analysing the major writings of these three thinkers and placing them in the context of the history of Western philosophy, he shows that together they provide us with a metaphysics of ideas that is uniquely helpful for thinking through important problems in contemporary political theory and philosophy of mind. In particular, it allows us to understand how it is possible for people to act against their own interests and in spite of their consciously knowing better.
£105.56
Edinburgh University Press Spinoza'S Paradoxical Conservatism
A translation of one of Zourabichvili's two major books on Spinoza Includes a substantive Introduction that situates and contextualises Zourabichvili's book, while laying out the major themes of his analysis Includes a discussion of the text by Pierre Macherey and a direct response to it by Zourabichvili, an exchange they had in 2004 Zourabichvili was a student of Deleuze and his work on him is already highly celebrated. This book will be of interest to readers of Deleuze as well as Spinoza scholars Fran ois Zourabichvili wrote two major contributions to Spinoza scholarship. While Une physique de la pens e (PUF, 2002) concerns Spinoza's epistemology and metaphysics of ideas, Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism focuses on his political philosophy. Zourabichvili's interpretation of Spinoza's political philosophy is radically unlike the established tradition. In this book he explores Spinoza's philosophical theory of change across three different studies. First, within ethical transition, secondly within the image of the infant in Spinoza's work and third dealing with absolute monarchy, which was dominant during Spinoza's time and provided his polemical writings with a concrete target. The book's challenging and carefully-argued claims will be of serious interest to anyone working in political theory, early modern philosophy or contemporary French thought.
£106.07
