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DESCRIPTION:There is a multi-faceted revival of interest in the 17th century 
 philosopher Benedict de Spinoza from theologians in Iran's Green Movement, 
 personified by the controversial philosopher/theologian Abdolkarim Soroush, 
 out to separate "mosque and state", to the Spinozist philosophic ground of 
 the post-modern "Marxist" work Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. 
 This installment of an ongoing series, "Dialog on the Dialectic", will 
 present an overview of Spinoza and engage his appeal to a contemporary 
 audience as well as his relation to the Hegelian/Marxist dialectic. Hegel 
 gave a whole new meaning to a Spinozist formulation, found in a letter, 
 namely, "all determination is negation." In Capital, this Spinozist 
 formulation is precisely what Marx cites when he asserts that Hegel's 
 dialectic is the "source of all dialectic" (p. 744). Does this speak to 
 today's search for a way out of capitalism's total crises of permanent 
 economic malaise, impending ecological disaster, and permanent war and 
 terror?  \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/20/18767291.php
SUMMARY:"Dialog on the Dialectic": Spinoza
LOCATION:Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA 94609
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/01/20/18767291.php
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