The Explainability of Experience

Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-935016-2
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renz, Ursula

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Über Autor(innen)

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