Vandaag kwam er tijdens mijn internet-speurtochten weer een
Spinoza-dissertatie langs die ik hierbij graag doorgeef. Het gaat om een
onderzoek naar Spinoza’s weg naar kennis of “epistemologie:”
Norman Lee Whitman, SPINOZA’S MATERIALIST “EPISTEMOLOGY”. Nashville,
Tennessee: PhD-thesis Vanderbilt University, May, 2015 [PDF]
Scholars have begun to explore Baruch Spinozas
critique of rationalism, largely because of his importance for later thinkers
deeply concerned about the nature of body, including Nietzsche, Freud, Marx,
Frankfurt school critical theorists, and feminists. Until now, however,
Spinozas epistemological writings have not been properly addressed in this
revival of interest in his materialism. My dissertation reconstructs Spinozas
materialist method of knowing in an effort to reclaim it from Cartesian and
idealist readings, offering instead a materialist reading of Spinozas
epistemological writings that shows him as the first serious critic of modern
rationalism. Contrary to the predominant reading of Spinoza in Anglo-American
philosophy, which presents him as a metaphysician dependent on Cartesian
epistemology, I argue that Spinoza offers something separate, akin to an
epistemology, that distinguishes him from the Cartesian model and allows him to
critique it. The dissertation explores how Spinozas method of knowing must
involve material conditions, including concrete history, psychology, society,
and politics, that are experienced through the body and that render a purely
mental criterion for knowledge impossible. [cf.]
hier de Table of Contents
Weer heel fijn dat je de dissertatie niet alleen noemt, maar ons ook toegang verleent!
BeantwoordenVerwijderen