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Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination

Af: Eugene Garver Engelsk Hardback

Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination

Af: Eugene Garver Engelsk Hardback
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Spinoza’s Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work. Other readers have looked at the imagination to account for Spinoza’s understanding of politics and religion, but this is the first inquiry to see it as central to the Ethics as a whole—imagination as a quality to be cultivated, and not simply overcome. Spinoza initially presents imagination as an inadequate and confused way of thinking, always inferior to ideas that adequately represent things as they are. It would seem to follow that one ought to purge the mind of imaginative ideas and replace them with rational ideas as soon as possible, but as Garver shows, the Ethics don’t allow for this ultimate ethical act until one has cultivated a powerful imagination. This is, for Garver, “the cunning of imagination.” The simple plot of progress becomes, because of the imagination, a complex journey full of reversals and discoveries. For Garver, the “cunning” of the imagination resides in our ability to use imagination to rise above it.
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Spinoza’s Ethics, and its project of proving ethical truths through the geometric method, have attracted and challenged readers for more than three hundred years. In Spinoza and the Cunning of Imagination, Eugene Garver uses the imagination as a guiding thread to this work. Other readers have looked at the imagination to account for Spinoza’s understanding of politics and religion, but this is the first inquiry to see it as central to the Ethics as a whole—imagination as a quality to be cultivated, and not simply overcome. Spinoza initially presents imagination as an inadequate and confused way of thinking, always inferior to ideas that adequately represent things as they are. It would seem to follow that one ought to purge the mind of imaginative ideas and replace them with rational ideas as soon as possible, but as Garver shows, the Ethics don’t allow for this ultimate ethical act until one has cultivated a powerful imagination. This is, for Garver, “the cunning of imagination.” The simple plot of progress becomes, because of the imagination, a complex journey full of reversals and discoveries. For Garver, the “cunning” of the imagination resides in our ability to use imagination to rise above it.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9780226575568
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 022657556X
Kategori: Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie
Udg. Dato: 12 okt 2018
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 182mm
Højde: 235mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 12 okt 2018
Forfatter(e): Eugene Garver
Forfatter(e) Eugene Garver

Kategori Samfundsvidenskabelig idéhistorie

ISBN-13 9780226575568

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 320

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 182mm

Højde 235mm

Udg. Dato 12 okt 2018

Oplagsdato 12 okt 2018

Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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