Daniel B. Schwartz
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691142913
- eISBN:
- 9781400842261
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691142913.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This concluding chapter considers the current vogue in appropriations of Spinoza. Broadly speaking, the chapter finds in the recent literature two basic positions on Spinoza's place in the world of ...
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This concluding chapter considers the current vogue in appropriations of Spinoza. Broadly speaking, the chapter finds in the recent literature two basic positions on Spinoza's place in the world of Jewish secularism: the “presentists,” who seek to vouch for Spinoza's anticipation of the modern, secular Jew and drive home his relevance to the contemporary culture wars; and the “contextualists,” who look askance at interpretations of Spinoza as a Jewish precursor, judging such readings guilty of everything from historical anachronism at the very least to a groundless “Judaizing” of the Amsterdam philosopher more problematically. This chapter, as with the rest of this volume, maintains a contextualist stance, and discusses this position in more depth in the larger context of the contemporary revival of Spinoza in modern Jewish culture.Less
This concluding chapter considers the current vogue in appropriations of Spinoza. Broadly speaking, the chapter finds in the recent literature two basic positions on Spinoza's place in the world of Jewish secularism: the “presentists,” who seek to vouch for Spinoza's anticipation of the modern, secular Jew and drive home his relevance to the contemporary culture wars; and the “contextualists,” who look askance at interpretations of Spinoza as a Jewish precursor, judging such readings guilty of everything from historical anachronism at the very least to a groundless “Judaizing” of the Amsterdam philosopher more problematically. This chapter, as with the rest of this volume, maintains a contextualist stance, and discusses this position in more depth in the larger context of the contemporary revival of Spinoza in modern Jewish culture.
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853238058
- eISBN:
- 9781846312960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238058.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This part of the book focuses on the theoretical and methodological preparation for the discourse analysis of the construction of sociology. It discusses the rationale for considering sociology as ...
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This part of the book focuses on the theoretical and methodological preparation for the discourse analysis of the construction of sociology. It discusses the rationale for considering sociology as being related to social knowledge within the context of the discourse of modernity. Presentists focus on the inner form of sociological knowledge, which have been created and carried forward by past sociologists. In contrast, historicists insist on the application of historical methods to sociology's past.Less
This part of the book focuses on the theoretical and methodological preparation for the discourse analysis of the construction of sociology. It discusses the rationale for considering sociology as being related to social knowledge within the context of the discourse of modernity. Presentists focus on the inner form of sociological knowledge, which have been created and carried forward by past sociologists. In contrast, historicists insist on the application of historical methods to sociology's past.
