Fall 2000
Professor Kenneth Surin
114 Art Museum Building, East Campus
Tel# 684-4364
e-mail:
kenneth.surin@duke.edu
Office Hours: please sign up on sheets on my office door or make an appointment.
The class will be run as a seminar in order to encourage close and detailed
readings of the text. Texts for this class can be obtained from the Textbook
Store in the Bryan Center (tel: 684-6793).
REQUIREMENTS:
Students taking this course for credit will have to submit a 20-30 page
term paper.
READINGS
Spinoza, Benedict A Spinoza Reader Princeton University Press
Spinoza, Benedict Theologico-Political Treatise Dover
Balibar, Etienne Spinoza and Politics Verso
Deleuze, Gilles Spinoza: Practical Philosophy City Lights
Gatens, Moira & Lloyd, Genevieve Collective Imaginings Routledge
Mason, Richard The God of Spinoza Cambridge University Press
Negri, Antonio The Savage Anomaly Minnesota University Press
Stolze, Ted & Montag, Warren (eds.) The New Spinoza Minnesota
University Press
CLASS SCHEDULE
August 30 Introductions
Sept 6 Ethics, Part 1
Sept 13 Ethics, Part 2
Sept 20 No Class (Rethinking Marxism Conference at Amherst)
Sept 27 Ethics, Parts 3 and 4; Deleuze, Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Oct 4 A Theologico-Political Treatise, Preface to Ch. X
Oct 11 A Theologico-Political Treatise, Ch. XI-XV
Oct 18 A Theologico-Political Treatise, Ch. XVI-end; A Political Treatise
Oct 25 Mason, The God of Spinoza
Nov 1 Gatens and Lloyd, Collective Imaginings
Nov 8 Montag and Stolze, The New Spinoza
Nov 15 Balibar, Spinoza and Politics
Nov 22 No Class- Thanksgiving Break
Nov 29 Negri, The Savage Anomaly
ADDITIONAL SECONDARY READING MATERIAL
Here are some useful additional secondary texts for the topics covered in this class:
Jonathan Bennett, A Study of Spinoza's Ethics
E.M. Curley, Behind the Geometrical Method: A Reading of Spinoza's Ethics
E.M. Curley and P.-F. Moreau, eds., Spinoza: Issues and Directions
Douglas Den Uyl, Power, State and Freedom : An Interpretation of Spinoza's Political Philosophy
Don Garrett, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza
Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
Marjorie Grene, ed., Spinoza: A Collection of Critical Essays
Martial Gueroult, Spinoza I: Dieu
-----------, Spinoza II: L'Ame
Stuart Hampshire, Spinoza
Genevieve Lloyd, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Spinoza and the Ethics
Genevieve Lloyd, Part of Nature: Self-Knowledge in Spinoza's Ethics
Pierre Macheray, Hegel ou Spinoza
Alexandre Matheron, Individu et communauté chez Spinoza
Steven M. Nadler, Spinoza: A Life
Warren Montag, Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries
Christopher Norris, Spinoza and the Origin's of Modern Critical Theory
Richard H. Popkin, The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza
G.H.R. Parkinson, Spinoza's Theory of Knowledge
Steven B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity
H.A. Wolfson, The Philosophy of Spinoza
Yirmiyahu Yovel, Spinoza and Other Heretics, 2 vols.
Yirmiyahu Yovel, ed., Spinoza on Knowledge and the Human Mind
Yirmiyahu Yovel, ed., Desire and Affect : Spinoza As Psychologist
Studia Spinozana is a very useful annual publication containing essays, reviews, and discussions.
LINKS
Here are some useful links for the topics covered in this class:
Chrisstenson's Spinoza Page http://www.knuten.liu.se/~bjoch509/philosophers/spi.html
Spinoza Chronology http://frank.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/Spinoza/chrono4.html
Spinoza Exhibition http://www.arti.nl/spinoza/index.html
Spinoza Webibliography http://cooley.colgate.edu/cslweb/curresup/spinoza.html
Spinoza Page (Oregon State U.) http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/spinoza.html
Studia Spinoziana http://frank.mtsu.edu/~rbombard/RB/spinoza.new.html
UK Spinoza Site http://www.dircon.co.uk/meta4/spinoza/index.html
Yesselman's Spinoza Page http://users.erols.com/jyselman/index.htm
Duke University Online Catalogue http://www.lib.duke.edu