The Explainability of Experience: Realism and Subjectivity in Spinoza's Theory of the Human Mind

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
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780199350162

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

About the Author

Ursula Renz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria