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082			_a199.492 _bDEL
100			_aDeleuze, Gilles
245			_aSpinoza : practical philosophy
260			_bCity Lights Books, _c1988 _aSan Francisco :
300			_aiii, 130p. ; _c21 cm
365			_b13.95 _cUSD _d85.20
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aSpinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. Attention has been drawn to Spinoza by deep ecologists such as Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher; and this reading of Spinoza by Deleuze lends itself to a radical ecological ethic. As Robert Hurley says in his introduction, "Deleuze opens us to the idea that the elements of the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. One wonders, finally, whether Man might be defined as a territory, a set of boundaries, a limit on existence." Gilles Deleuze, known for his inquiries into desire, language, politics, and power, finds a kinship between Spinoza and Nietzsche. He writes, "Spinoza did not believe in hope or even in courage; he believed only in joy and in vision ...he more than any other gave me the feeling of a gust of air from behind each time I read him, of a witch's broom that he makes one mount. " Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher whose writings influenced many philosophical disciplines such as literary theory, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. He also taught philosophy at the University of Paris at Vicennes.
650			_aSpinoza
650			_aPhilosophers
650			_aFrance
650			_aEvil
650			_aNietzsche
650			_aHebrew Bible
650			_aMorality, dictionary
650			_a Ethics
650			_a Knowledge
650			_aOntology
650			_aFiat
700			_aHurley, Robert
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