Spinoza Research Network

斯宾诺莎研究网络

• 批准号: AH/G001316/1
• 负责人: Beth Lord
• 金额: $ 3.15万
• 依托单位: University of Dundee
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FG001316%2F1
• 关键词: Spinoza; Research; Network

The Spinoza Research Network will be a group of researchers in multiple disciplines working on Baruch Spinoza, a major philosopher of the seventeenth century and one of the most important thinkers in the history of European thought.Spinoza developed a complex theory of being and knowledge on which he based a radical system of ethics and politics. A Portuguese Jew born in Amsterdam, whose work was banned for its subversive critiques of the establishment, his outlook is historically as well as philosophically important. But his significance is not restricted to the realm of academic philosophy, history of ideas, or esoteric studies of early modern texts. Spinoza is one of the most original and important thinkers in Western thought beyond philosophy: his ideas involve science, politics, and theology, and are relevant today in fields that include psychology, medicine, law, gender studies, and literature.This project is important today because it is only in the last twenty years that Spinoza's significance outside of academic philosophy has been recognized. In recent years Spinoza has reached an interdisciplinary and popular audience through, e.g., Damasio's Looking for Spinoza, which links Spinoza to contemporary neuroscience, and Stewart's study of Spinoza's radical politics, The Courtier and the Heretic. These developments mean that Spinoza's works are studied today not only for their philosophical arguments, but as literary texts, theological critiques, political manifestos, and scientific programmes. Throughout the UK, researchers in numerous disciplines work on Spinoza without a network or society that enables them to develop research collaboratively. The Spinoza Research Network will bring these researchers together, enabling us to exchange and advance new interdisciplinary areas of research. The Spinoza Research Network will bring researchers together through two conferences and a website. Conferences will include papers from academics and research students, enabling us to exchange knowledge and find out how people are using Spinoza within and beyond disciplines. The questions we aim to answer are: how are people within and outside philosophy using Spinoza? What is the contemporary relevance of Spinoza, beyond philosophy and outside academia?Each conference is set around a theme, with the intention that a core interdisciplinary group will attend both. The first is on 'Bodies', incorporating Spinoza's uses in ethics, politics, law, and the sciences. The second is on 'Texts', looking at Spinoza's importance for theology, literature, and history, and assessing the popular reception of Spinoza's work, both historical and contemporary. Determining how Spinoza is currently being studied and used, both within and outside university disciplines, will enable us to set further research questions and to initiate joint projects on Spinoza as an interdisciplinary thinker. The two conferences will result in an edited collection of papers on 'Interdisciplinary Spinoza'.The website will provide a home for the Network and will offer resources to researchers, students, and the interested public. We will encourage student and public participation in the Network through online conference papers, a resource area, links to e-texts and related networks internationally, and interactive elements such as a blog. After the two-year project is over, the Spinoza Research Network will remain active as the UK Spinoza Society. Scholarly societies on Spinoza exist in a number of other countries, but none currently exists in the UK. The purpose of the Society will be to foster further interdisciplinary research of the kind established by the network, and to contribute to building a stronger research culture in history of philosophy in the UK.

斯宾诺莎研究网络将是一个研究巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎的多学科研究小组。巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎是17世纪的主要哲学家，也是欧洲思想史上最重要的思想家之一。斯宾诺莎发展了一种复杂的存在和知识理论，他以此为基础建立了激进的伦理和政治体系。作为一名出生在阿姆斯特丹的葡萄牙犹太人，他的作品因对当权者的颠覆性批评而被禁止，他的观点在历史上和哲学上都具有重要意义。但他的意义并不局限于学术哲学、思想史或对早期现代文本的深奥研究。斯宾诺莎是超越哲学的西方思想中最具原创性和最重要的思想家之一：他的思想涉及科学、政治和神学，今天在心理学、医学、法律、性别研究和文学等领域都具有现实意义。这个项目今天很重要，因为直到最近20年，斯宾诺莎的学术哲学之外的意义才被认识到。近年来，斯宾诺莎已经接触到跨学科和受欢迎的受众，例如，达马西奥的《寻找斯宾诺莎》将斯宾诺莎与当代神经科学联系起来，以及斯图尔特对斯宾诺莎的激进政治、库蒂埃和异端的研究。这些发展意味着，斯宾诺莎的作品今天不仅因为他们的哲学论点而被研究，而且作为文学文本、神学批评、政治宣言和科学方案而被研究。在整个英国，多个学科的研究人员在Spinoza上工作，没有网络或社会使他们能够合作开展研究。斯宾诺莎研究网络将把这些研究人员聚集在一起，使我们能够交流和推进新的跨学科研究领域。斯宾诺莎研究网络将通过两次会议和一个网站将研究人员聚集在一起。会议将包括学者和研究学生的论文，使我们能够交流知识，并了解人们如何在学科内外使用Spinoza。我们要回答的问题是：哲学内外的人是如何使用斯宾诺莎的？除了哲学和学术界之外，斯宾诺莎的当代意义是什么？每次会议都围绕一个主题展开，目的是让一个核心的跨学科小组同时出席这两个会议。第一个是关于“身体”的，包括斯宾诺莎在伦理、政治、法律和科学方面的用途。第二个是关于“文本”，考察斯宾诺莎对神学、文学和历史的重要性，并评估大众对斯宾诺莎作品的接受程度，无论是历史上的还是当代的。确定目前在大学学科内外对斯宾诺莎的研究和利用方式，将使我们能够提出进一步的研究问题，并作为一名跨学科思想家启动关于斯宾诺莎的联合项目。这两个会议将产生一个关于“跨学科Spinoza”的编辑论文集。网站将为该网络提供一个主页，并将向研究人员、学生和感兴趣的公众提供资源。我们将通过在线会议论文、资源区、指向电子文本和国际相关网络的链接以及博客等互动元素，鼓励学生和公众参与该网络。在为期两年的项目结束后，斯宾诺莎研究网络将作为英国斯宾诺莎学会继续活跃。斯宾诺莎上的学术团体在其他一些国家也有，但目前在英国还没有。该学会的目的将是促进由该网络建立的这种跨学科研究的进一步发展，并为在英国建立更强大的哲学史研究文化做出贡献。