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Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

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Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
Cover of the first edition
AuthorGilles Deleuze
Original titleSpinoza et le problème de l'expression
TranslatorMartin Joughin
LanguageFrench
SubjectBaruch Spinoza
PublisherEditions de Minuit, Zone Books
Publication date
1968
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1990
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages448 (Zone Books edition)
Preceded byDifférence et répétition (1968) 
Followed byLogique du sens (1969) 

Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza (French: Spinoza et le problème de l'expression) is a 1968 book by the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, in which the author conceives Baruch Spinoza as a solitary thinker who envisioned philosophy as an enterprise of liberation and radical demystification. Deleuze sees how the univocity of Being fits into the theory of substance and looks into the relationship between the theory of ideas and the production of truth and sense, the organisation of affect (elimination of sad passions) to achieve joy, and the organization of affect in the theory of modes.[1]

Publication history

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Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza was first published by Les Éditions de Minuit in 1968. In 1990, Zone Books published Martin Joughin's English translation.[2]

Reception

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The philosopher Alan D. Schrift wrote in The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2015) that, together with Deleuze's Spinoza: Practical Philosophy (1970), Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza "influenced several generations of French Spinozism".[3]

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Bibliography

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Books
  • Deleuze, Gilles (1992). Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza. New York: Zone Books. ISBN 0-942299-51-5.
  • Schrift, Alan D.; Audi, Robert, Editor (2017). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-64379-6. {{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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