Introduction: Debates on Experience and Empiricism in Nineteenth Century France

The lasting effects of the debate over canon-formation during the 1980s affected the whole field of Humanities, which became increasingly engaged in interrogating the origin and function of the Western canon (Gorak 1991; Searle 1990). In philosophy, a great deal of criticism was, as a result, directed at the traditional narrative of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century philosophies—a critique informed by postcolonialism (Park 2013) as well as feminist historiography (Shapiro 2016). D. F. Norton (1981), L. Loeb (1981) and many others1 attempted to demonstrate the weaknesses of the tripartite division between rationalism, empiricism and critical philosophy.2 As time went on, symptoms of dissatisfaction with what has been called the “standard narrative” ( Vanzo 2013) and the “epistemological par-adigm” (Haakonssen 2004, 2006) only increased. Indeed, at present, a consensus has been reached that the narrative of the antagonism between “Continental rationalism” and “British empiricism”, and the consequent Aufhebung provided by “German critical philosophy,” has been unable to make sense of the complexity, variety and dynamics of early modern.Fil: Antoine-Mahut, Delphine. Ecole Normale Supérieure; FranciaFil: Manzo, Silvia Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - La Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales; Argentin

La controverse entre Grotius, Hobbes et Spinoza sur le jus circa sacra. Textes, prétextes, contextes et circonstances

Anne-Lise Rey et Alexis Tadié (dir.)International audienceCette contribution esquisse un cadre méthodologique pour l’étude des controverses en histoire de la philosophie. Il se construit autour de quatre composants fondamentaux : textes, contextes, prétextes et circonstances. Nous montrons comment, une fois ces éléments identifiés et systématiquement distingués et distribués, une controverse est localisée et circonscrite. En outre, nous montrons comment, formel- lement, les controverses sont reliées entre elles par le biais de la migration des textes d’un contexte à un autre. Ensuite, nous prenons pour exemple une controverse clé dans l’histoire de la philosophie politique, la controverse à l’âge classique sur le jus circa sacra, « le droit des affaires sacrées », en nous penchant en particulier sur les travaux de Grotius, de Hobbes et de Spinoza

Spinozism, Kabbalism, and Idealism from Johann Georg Wachter to Moses Mendelssohn

International audienceThe paper studies the historical background for the 'idealist' reading of Spinoza usually traced back to British and German Idealism. Here, I follow this history further back than and focus on one earlier idealist reading, indeed perhaps the mother of them all. It can be found in the Elucidarius cabalisticus, sive reconditae Hebraeorum philosophiae brevis et succincta recensio by Johann Georg Wachter, a kabbalist interpretation of Spinoza published in 1706. I am principally interested in the importance that Wachter's book may have had for German philosophy in the second half of the eighteenth century. Focusing on Moses Mendelssohn's Philosophische Gespräche of 1755, I argue that, via Mendelssohn, the Elucidarius cabalisticus is perhaps the earliest possible source of the idealist reading of Spinoza that dominated the German Spinozabild from throughout the Pantheismusstreit up to the second edition of Herder's 1800 Gott: Einige Gespräche, culminating with Hegel's 'acosmist' reading of Spinoza in the 1825-26 lectures on the history of philosophy

Spinoza in France, c. 1670–1970. Author version

International audienceThis chapter proposes a very condensed overview of some three centuries of Spinoza reception in France, from around 1670 to 1970. Spinoza's presence in the history of French philosophy is pervasive, deep, and varied. The chapter presents some of the most important figures and stages in that inextricable double history of both Spinozism from the viewpoint of French philosophy and French philosophy from the viewpoint of Spinozism. The translation is a testimony to the depth with which the French libertine tradition of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century sometimes appropriated Spinoza's philosophy for its own subversive purposes. One way of coming to grips with Spinoza's biblical scholarship was to drown his argument in a deluge of superior erudition. Spinoza's philosophy, by contrast, was universally condemned as fatalist and pantheist

Worms in Teeth, Swallowed Bodkins, and Stained Agates: The Royal Society and the Curious Papers of Theodore de Mayerne

https://notcom.hypotheses.org/4032In May 1665, Sir Theodore de Vaux was proposed (by John Wilkins), elected, and finally admitted to the Royal Society. Physician to Charles II and recently elected honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. But he was also the godson of Theodore de Mayerne (1573-1655), the celebrated paracelsian and physician to the Stuart kings,[2] and in possession of a substantial amount of documents written by, or sent to, his deceased godfather

Leibniz and Spinoza in the Pantheismusstreit

Séminaire, résp. E. Förster et Y. Melamed, Université de Johns Hopkins. Février 2012International audienceno abstrac