Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit:
Spinoza's Critique of Religion and Its Heirs : Marx, Benjamin, Adorno

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015. - 275 pp.

Contains bibliography: 253-260
Mention of Spinoza: 1. The Theological-Political Construction of the Philosophical Tradition. Part I. The Enigma of Spinoza: 21-28;
2. The Paradox of a Perfect Democracy : From Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise' to Marx: 67-106;
ferner/further: XII, XIII, 2, 3, 12-13, 14, 20, 28, 32-35, 38, 39n41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 50, 109, 118n19, 128-129, 146, 151, 159n26, 170n49, 174, 190, 193, 196, 197, 200, 205-207, 210, 231n66, 242, 245, 250

Literature type: Monographs
Language: English
Thematic areas: Metaphysics / ontology, Epistemology / methodology / philosophy of mind, Anthropology / psychology / doctrine of affections / body and mind, Theory of society, Philosophy of politics and law, Theology / biblical hermeneutics / philosophy of religion, Reception history, Materialism / Marxism
Subject (individuals): Adorno, Theodor W.; Benjamin, Walter; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich ; Marx, Karl

Reviews: Read, Jason (2015)

Complete bibliographic evaluation: yes
Autopsy: yes
English commentary: "This book seeks to uncover Spinoza's "other heirs", those who think the consequences of his thought materially and historically, rather than claiming to be his disciples and violently incorporationg him into their metaphysical systems" (p. 65).
Part 1: Critical exposition of the onesidednesses of contemporary Spinoza research which exclude each others.
Part 2: "I first outline the contours of the occluded relation between Spinoza and Marx in the context of the history of Spinoza misapprehensions [...] in order to make intelligible the argument that Marx's rearrangement of Spinoza's TTP is the source of his radical critique of Hegel and the left Hegelians" (p. 68).
"[...] the critique of religion from Spinoza on, properly understood, has never assumed that reason or spirit can superseed religion; rather, it seeks to understand religion as a material psychic need and respond to its power as mass power by excluding it from politics rather than repressing or accomodating it" (p. 250).

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