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Author Kordela, Aglaia Kiarina, 1963-

Title $urplus : Spinoza, Lacan / A. Kiarina Kordela
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description x, 195 pages ; 24 cm
Series SUNY series, insinuations
SUNY series, insinuations, philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature
SUNY series, insinuations.
Contents Introduction : the context -- Postmodern "neo-Spinozism" -- Scientific "neo-Spinozism" and Hegel -- Consensual, evolutionist "modern Spinozism" -- After the context -- Pt. I. Secular causality and its enjoyment -- From the first cause to transference -- Causes or reasons? -- Science of differential substance -- Secular ontology : differential (non-)substance and the end of (anti-)platonism -- Wherein consists the break of secular modernity? -- History of differential (non-)substance -- Ethics of differential (non-)substance -- From libido to enjoyment -- A history of God in secular reason (from philosophy to non-anti-philosophy) -- God in (or out of?) : cultural studies -- The break of extimacy -- (Burning with) enjoyment -- God, nobody, or Mr. nobody? -- Pt. II. Kant with Marx : surplus, or, gaze -- Commodity fetishism : toward an epistemo-/ontology of surplus -- The rule of representation and sex (from Kant's rule of reason to Marx's rule of exchange-value) -- Set theory and being (Marx's materialist metaphysics) -- Prom absolute knowledge to the gaze -- Is it possible not to hate representation? : (another look at empire) -- Conclusion : raising a question -- Another look at ethics, or, commodity and the gaze
Summary "Opposing both popular "neo-Spinozisms" (Deleuze, Negri, Hardt, Israel) and their Lacanian critiques (Zizek and Badiou), Surplus maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the Spinozian-Marxian line of thought. Author A. Kiarina Kordela argues that both sides ignore the inherent contradictions in Spinoza's work, and that Lacan's reading of Spinoza - as well as of Descartes, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Freud, and Wittgenstein-offers a much subtler balance of knowing when to take the philosopher at face value and when to read him against himself."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-185) and index
Subject Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Philosophy, Modern.
Causation.
LC no. 2006013423
ISBN 0791470199 hardcover alkaline paper
9780791470190 hardcover alkaline paper
Other Titles Surplus