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The New Spinoza Warren Montag and Ted Stolze, editors |
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“This is a spectacular volume, long overdue, but perhaps only readable now. These essays establish the centrality of Spinoza’s influence on contemporary critical theory, and show that we have, as it were, been speaking about him all along. Here is not only Spinoza on desire, attribute, power, nature, cause, substance, the absolute, the infinite, and freedom that becomes illuminated anew, but the scene of persecution, ‘the empty synagogue,’ the problem of censorship and radical dissent. French Marxism turns out to be less structuralist than surmised or, equivalently, structuralism turns out to have its history in Spinoza’s unparalleled theology of desire.”— Judith Butler 512 pages | 7 x 10 | 1998 |
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