Pierre Macherey’s Hegel or #Spinoza staat als PDF op internet

In vervolg op het vorige blog meld ik hier dat de Engelse vertaling van Pierre Macherey’s Hegel ou Spinoza [Paris: Maspero, 1979], d.w.z.

Pierre Macherey, Hegel or Spinoza. Transl. by Susan M. Ruddick. University of Minnesota Press, 2011

als PDF van de site Uberty.org te downloaden is. Het is ook als PDF te vinden op BookSC. Dat u het maar weet.

Reviewed by  Caroline Williams at NDPR 


Vóór de vertaling uitkwam verscheen het hoofdstuk "Hegel reads Spinoza" apart in: Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2011, volume 29, Issue 2, pages 223 - 236 [cf. & PDF op BookSC]. Ik citeer daaruit het abstract

Abstract. Hegel ou Spinoza first appeared in 1979 after an eight-year near hiatus in Pierre Macherey's work. It marked, as Warren Montag argues, a divergence in the philosophical paths of Pierre Macherey and his mentor and (by then) colleague Louis Althusser, each responding in their own way to the violent misreading of their work as a so-called structuralism and the resurgence of humanism (or perhaps, more correctly an anti-antihumanism) in France at the time. This is a pivotal and arguably prescient work. The questions it addresses speak not only to the historical legacy of Hegel in France but to the persistent fault lines and potential points of convergence in contemporary social theory and political philosophy. These include, among others, questions about the role of the dialectic and the negative central to the work of Negri and Althusser; questions about the politics of ontology and how we conceive of multiplicity, a point of contention between Deleuze and Badiou; and questions about the immanence of expression and the role of representation in the play of difference, a point of divergence between Deleuze and Derrida. This first chapter—``Hegel reads Spinoza''—sets up Hegel's reading of Spinoza, which is for Hegel an arrested development, a moment of stasis in thinking that is at the same time a beginning of philosophy. But Macherey focuses his attention on this reading in order to uncover in subsequent chapters what is indigestible for Hegel in Spinoza's work, a kernel on which philosophy is made to move again, but this time in a renewal of Spinoza's thinking on three critical points: the problem of attributes, and the role of the negative.