Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise

Autorentext

André Tosel (1941-2017) was a prolific French philosopher and specialist of Spinoza, Marx and Italian Marxism as well as the history of modern philosophy. He taught at numerous French universities throughout his long career and published countless studies on philosophy and politics from Spinoza and Kant to Marx, Engels and Gramsci. This is his first full length book to appear in English translation.

Klappentext

Tosel, one of the first thinkers to pursue the systematic study of Spinoza's relation to Marx, provides an innovative and accessible reading of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise as a way of entering into Spinoza's notoriously difficult philosophical system. A manifesto for intellectual and political liberation, Tosel explores how Spinoza strategically intervened in the theologico-political debates of the late 17th century in order to galvanise the nascent philosophical powers of heterodox Christians living in the Dutch Republic. Complete with a substantial introduction written by the translators, this English translation introduces Anglophone readers to Tosel's important scholarship - which arguably went the furthest in systematically investigating the connections between Spinoza, Marxism and materialism famously signalled by Tosel's teacher Louis Althusser - through his first major publication.