Staring into the void
Subtitle: Spinoza, the master of nihilism
By: Harold Skulsky.
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Neward, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780874130713
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677
Description: "Staring into the Void is designed to meet the needs of three audiences: general readers interested in the thought of major philosophers in the Western tradition, especially thought that speaks profoundly to modern anxieties about personal identity, objective reality, human nature, and the bearing of all these on the possibility of a just political order; students in philosophy and humanities courses dealing with these concerns; intellectual historians with a professional interest in new insights into the crucial or contested parts of Spinoza's thought."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The one real thing; title: Agent of all acts and thinker of all thoughts; title: Substance vs. attribute; title: Attributes as spaces; title: Naturalism; title: Figments of reason; title: Nihilism; title: Idea vs. image; title: Intuitive knowing and the fear of death; title: Determinism; title: Human agency : the basic law of "trying"; title: "Right" naturalized : the politics of Spinoza.