The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199350162)

This book reconstructs Spinoza's theory of the human mind against the backdrop of the twofold notion that subjective experience is explainable and that its successful explanation is of ethical relevance, because it makes us wiser, freer, and happier. Doing so, the book defends a realist rationalist interpretation of Spinoza's approach which does not entail commitment to an ontological reduction of subjective experience to mere intelligibility. In contrast to a long-standing tradition of Hegelian reading of Spinoza's Ethics, it thus defends the notion that the experience of finite subjects is fully real.

Author: Ursula Renz
ISBN-10: 0199350167
ISBN-13: 9780199350162
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2019