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Surplus: Spinoza, Lacan
Contributor(s): Kordela, A. Kiarina (Author)

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 ISBN: 0791470199     ISBN-13: 9780791470190
Publisher: State University of New York Press
OUR PRICE: $94.05  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: February 2007
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Annotation: Maintains that Lacanian psychoanalysis is the proper continuation of the line of thought from Spinoza to Marx.

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BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis
- Philosophy | History & Surveys - Modern
- Philosophy | Metaphysics
Dewey: 190
LCCN: 2006013423
Series: SUNY Series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.52" W x 9.01" L (0.89 lbs) 205 pages
Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
 
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Opposing both popular "neo-Spinozisms" (Deleuze, Negri, Hardt, Israel) and their Lacanian critiques (Z iz ek 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. Moving between abstract theory and tangible political, ethical, and literary examples, Kordela traces the emergence of "enjoyment" and "the gaze" out of Spinoza's theories of God, truth, and causality, Kant's critique of pure reason, and Marx's pathbreaking application of set theory to economy. Kordela's thought unfolds an epistemology and an ontology proper to secular capitalist modernity that call for a revision of the Spinoza-Marx-Lacan line as the sole alternative to the (anti-)Platonist tradition.
 
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