What is structuralist about "Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza"?
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https://doi.org/10.59488/tragica.v17i2.64461Abstract
According to interpreter Pierre Macherey, the work "Espinosa e o problema da expressão" employs a structuralist procedure to interpret the philosophy of Baruch de Espinosa, and this deleuzian structuralism has the singularity of combining the dimensions of the structure and genesis of this philosophy. This article takes these two indications as its starting point, aiming to achieve two objectives: on one hand, to demonstrate that elements of this deleuzian work indeed suggest a structuralist interpretation; and on the other hand, to show how this combination of structure and genesis is present in that interpretation. To do so, we investigate: (1) how the deleuzian interpretation reads the opening of Part I of Ethics in light of the systematic function of the idea of expression; (2) what Deleuze understands by "structural-genetic method" in Martial Gueroult; and (3) the set of criteria, according to Deleuze, that allow us to recognize a structuralist thought.
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