Abstract
In attempting to draw out how the problem might shed light on the relationship between literature and thinking, I will consider three interconnected positions from the Ethics: first, how the “idea” is defined not to relate directly to words or images but to be, in effect, the process of understanding itself; second, how thinking – that is, the first, second, and third kinds of knowledge – is identified with the idea of the relation, which is also relevant to the existence of the bodies, which are conceived through mutual relations or ratios; and finally, how it becomes possible to develop an understanding of the essence of particular things through the third kind of knowledge, and how this process of development might be understood to involve a kind of creation whose concept sheds light on processes of creation in the arts.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Spinoza Now |
Editors | Dimitris Vardoulakis |
Place of Publication | U.S.A. |
Publisher | University of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 263-275 |
Number of pages | 13 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780816672806 |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |