Spinozan Turn in French Political Philosophy

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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New controversial interpretations of Spinoza`s Opera Quae
Supersunt Omnia flourished in post second World War years.
During the nineteen century and beginning years of the Twentieth
Spinoza`s metaphysics, ethics and politics were dominated
by a Hobbesian-Hegelian interpretation. Gradually a critical
philosophico-political thought toward Hegel were created in
the twentieth-century French philosophy. A group of French
anti-Hegelian philosophers introduced an alternative interpretation
of Spinozian works, generating a new tradition in Spinozist
readings. Spinozist philosophy faced new dimensions.
This discursive change contradicted with dominant traditions
of French political philosophy. In this article, the author tries
to analyze some faces of transformation of Spinozian reading
and periods of Spinozian interpretation in twentieth-century
French philosophy.

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