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Spinoza: Journal of an Emendation
Series: - Philosophy as a Way of Life, Volume: 9
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For the last 350 years, nearly all writing devoted to Spinoza is exegetic, providing endless interpretations of his many propositions, axioms, definitions, and scholia. When reflecting on this enormous corpus, the following question immediately springs to mind: instead of adding one more interpretation to Spinoza’s scholarship, is it possible to undertake the emending project that he proposes in his Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and the Ethics? Emendation does not mean altering for the better, but simply choosing a better perspective. Can such a change of perspective be actually achieved? This book attempts to carefully follow and live out Spinoza’s emendation project today.
Jean-Paul Martinon is a writer and Emeritus Reader at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is the author of a number of monographs on masculinity, the Rwandan Genocide, curatorial practices, and questions of temporality.
Foreword
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
I
1 An Indefinite Bonfire
2 Part of Me Proves Substance
3 In Itself from Loose Ends
4 And
5 Stealth Object
6 From One, Two
II
7 Reality or Perfection
8 Or
9 My Modal Part(s)
10 His Modal Part(s)
11 In So Far As
12 The Agreement of Perseverance
III
13 To Seek What Is Useful
14 No One Pities an Infant
15 Just like the Dog
16 Nature’s Order
17 I Depend on Nature’s Thinking
18 This Is Self-Evident
IV
19 A Tiny Worm
20 Adequate Commonality
21 The Body Is Never Wrong
22 Change, I Hope
23 Clarity
24 The Mind’s Eyes
V
25 Thinking
26 Emending
27 Escaping the Confusion of Images
28 Cultivating Common Notions
29 Towards a True Science
30 Truth Is Its Own Standard
VI
31 No More Free Will
32 Free Thought
33 Virtuous Freedom
34 To No Longer Feel Sad
35 Appetite and Desire
36 Feel and Experience
VII
37 I Love You
38 Actively Adequate
39 To Conclude Intuitively
40 Knowledge Now Proceeds
41 Acquiescence
42 Joy
43 As if I Had Just Begun
Afterword
Note on the Latin
Bibliography
Index Locorum
Abbreviations
Note to the Reader
I
1 An Indefinite Bonfire
2 Part of Me Proves Substance
3 In Itself from Loose Ends
4 And
5 Stealth Object
6 From One, Two
II
7 Reality or Perfection
8 Or
9 My Modal Part(s)
10 His Modal Part(s)
11 In So Far As
12 The Agreement of Perseverance
III
13 To Seek What Is Useful
14 No One Pities an Infant
15 Just like the Dog
16 Nature’s Order
17 I Depend on Nature’s Thinking
18 This Is Self-Evident
IV
19 A Tiny Worm
20 Adequate Commonality
21 The Body Is Never Wrong
22 Change, I Hope
23 Clarity
24 The Mind’s Eyes
V
25 Thinking
26 Emending
27 Escaping the Confusion of Images
28 Cultivating Common Notions
29 Towards a True Science
30 Truth Is Its Own Standard
VI
31 No More Free Will
32 Free Thought
33 Virtuous Freedom
34 To No Longer Feel Sad
35 Appetite and Desire
36 Feel and Experience
VII
37 I Love You
38 Actively Adequate
39 To Conclude Intuitively
40 Knowledge Now Proceeds
41 Acquiescence
42 Joy
43 As if I Had Just Begun
Afterword
Note on the Latin
Bibliography
Index Locorum
This book is of interest to postgraduates, scholars, writers, and artists researching philosophy as a way of life, as experiment, and as therapy. It is also of interest to those researching Spinoza, meta-philosophy, meta-ethics, Jewish thought, naturalism, queer ecology, paralipomena as well as to the Spinoza Center, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (Israel), Spinoza Society (Japan), North American Spinoza Society, Association des Amis de Spinoza (France), Groupe de Recherches Spinoziste (France), Societas Spinozana (Italy), Seminario Spinoza (Spain), and the Benedictus de Spinoza (Brazil).