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The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind - Hardcover

Renz, Ursula

 
9780199350162: The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0199350167 ISBN 13: 9780199350162
Publisher: OUP USA, 2018

Synopsis

This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Doing so, the book defends a realist rationalist interpretation of Spinoza's approach which does not entail commitment to an ontological reduction of subjective experience to mere intelligibility. In contrast to a long-standing tradition of Hegelian reading of Spinoza's Ethics, it thus defends the notion that the experience of finite subjects is fully real.

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About the Author

Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0199350167
ISBN 13 
9780199350162
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
328