{"product_id":"hegel-or-spinoza-pierre-macherey-9780816677405","title":"Hegel or Spinoza","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHegel or Spinoza\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English-language translation of the modern classic \u003ci\u003eHegel ou Spinoza.\u003c\/i\u003e Published in French in 1979, it has been widely influential, particularly in the work of the philosophers Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri, and Gilles Deleuze. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHegel or Spinoza\u003c\/i\u003e is a surgically precise interrogation of the points of misreading of Spinoza by Hegel. Pierre Macherey explains the necessity of Hegel's misreading in the kernel of thought that is \"indigestible\" for Hegel, which makes the Spinozist system move in a way that Hegel cannot grasp. In doing so, Macherey exposes the limited and situated truth of Hegel's perspective--which reveals more about Hegel himself than about his object of analysis. Against Hegel's characterization of Spinoza's work as immobile, Macherey offers a lively alternative that upsets the accepted historical progression of philosophical knowledge. He finds in Spinoza an immanent philosophy that is not subordinated to the guarantee of an a priori truth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot simply authorizing a particular reading--a \"good\" Spinoza against a \"bad\" Hegel--\u003ci\u003eHegel or Spinoza\u003c\/i\u003e initiates an encounter that produces a new understanding, a common truth that emerges in the interval that separates the two. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pierre Macherey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816677409\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816677405\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/14\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Pierre Macherey","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086950740223,"sku":"9780816677405","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hegel-or-spinoza-pierre-macherey-9780816677405","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}