180003 SE Gilles Deleuze: Overture to Spinoza (2011S)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Fr 11.02.2011 14:00 to Su 27.02.2011 09:00
- Deregistration possible until Th 31.03.2011 23:00
Details
max. 40 participants
Language: German
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
Tuesday
05.04.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
12.04.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
03.05.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
10.05.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
17.05.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
24.05.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
31.05.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
07.06.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
21.06.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
Tuesday
28.06.
11:00 - 14:00
Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
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Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
The students participating in this seminar will be required to give a lecture on a selected part of Deleuze's work on Spinoza (about 30 minutes) and submit a written version afterwards (seminar work, about 15 pages.)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
1. Introduction to Spinoza's Ethics from the perspective of Gilles Deleuze's reading of his work.
2. Discussion of the notion of LIFE from the perspective of both Deleuze and Spinoza.
3. Analysis of the significance of these philosophers in the history of philosophy
2. Discussion of the notion of LIFE from the perspective of both Deleuze and Spinoza.
3. Analysis of the significance of these philosophers in the history of philosophy
Examination topics
Close reading of Deleuze's works on Spinoza:
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Spinoza and the Problem of Expression in Philosophy
Pure Immanence: A Life
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Spinoza and the Problem of Expression in Philosophy
Pure Immanence: A Life
Reading list
Spinoza, Baruch de: Sämtliche Werke, Ethik in Geometrischer Ordnung dargestellt (2), Wolfgang Bartuschat (Hg.), Felix Meiner Verlag: Hamburg 1995.
Deleuze, Gilles: Spinoza. Praktische Philosophie, Merve Verlag: Berlin 1988.
Deleuze, Gilles: Spinoza und das Problem des Ausdrucks in der Philosophie, Wilhelm Fink Verlag: München 1993.
Deleuze, Gilles: Pure Immanence. Essay on A Life, Zone Books: New York 2001.
Agamben, Giorgio: Barleby oder die Kontingenz gefolgt von Die absolute Immanenz, Merve Verlag: Berlin 1998.
Weitere Literatur wird im Laufe des Semesters bekannt gegeben.
Deleuze, Gilles: Spinoza. Praktische Philosophie, Merve Verlag: Berlin 1988.
Deleuze, Gilles: Spinoza und das Problem des Ausdrucks in der Philosophie, Wilhelm Fink Verlag: München 1993.
Deleuze, Gilles: Pure Immanence. Essay on A Life, Zone Books: New York 2001.
Agamben, Giorgio: Barleby oder die Kontingenz gefolgt von Die absolute Immanenz, Merve Verlag: Berlin 1998.
Weitere Literatur wird im Laufe des Semesters bekannt gegeben.
Association in the course directory
MA M 4, § 4.1.7
Last modified: Mo 07.09.2020 15:36
According to Deleuze, the notion of life has been spoiled by categories like good and evil, revenge and remuneration, sin and salvation.
Perhaps this statement in Deleuze’s small book Spinoza: Practical Philosophy shows best the perspective from which Deleuze is reading Spinoza’s Ethics. Spinoza is not at all a thinker who merely introduced the lifeless method of geometry into the field of ethical issues, but, in deconstructing the categories of good and evil, revenge and remuneration, sin and salvation, he stands precisely in the tradition of Nietzsche and Bergson: he is indeed a thinker of another notion of life.
With this in mind, we will read the following works of Deleuze as a kind of philosophical “life science”:
Spinoza: Practical Philosophy
Spinoza and the Problem of Expression in Philosophy
Pure Immanence: A Life