DOBBS-WEINSTEIN, IDIT - Spinoza's Critique of Religion and its Heirs: Marx, Benjamin, AdornoNew York, Cambridge University Press, 2015. 275 pp. Fine. Hardcover with dustjacket. By situating Spinoza's thought in a materialist Aristotelian tradition, this book sheds new light on those who inherit Spinoza's thought and its consequences materially and historically rather than metaphysically. By focusing on Marx, Benjamin, and Adorno, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein explores the manner in which Spinoza's radical critique of religion shapes materialist critiques of the philosophy of history. Dobbs-Weinstein argues that two radically opposed notions of temporality and history are at stake for these thinkers, an onto-theological future-oriented one and a political one oriented to the past for the sake of the present or, more precisely, for the sake of actively resisting the persistent barbarism at the heart of culture. ISBN: 9781107094918 EUR 59.95 [Appr.: US$ 70.35 | £UK 52.25 | JP¥ 10350] Book number 48423is offered by:
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