Spinoza Research Network

斯宾诺莎研究网络将由多学科的研究人员组成，研究巴鲁克·斯宾诺莎，他是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。斯宾诺莎发展了一套关于存在和知识的复杂理论，并以此为基础建立了一套激进的伦理和政治体系。他是一名出生于阿姆斯特丹的葡萄牙裔犹太人，他的作品因其颠覆性地批评建制而被禁止，但他的观点在历史上和哲学上都很重要。但他的意义并不局限于学术哲学、思想史或早期现代文本的深奥研究领域。斯宾诺莎是西方思想界除哲学之外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，并与今天的心理学、医学、法律、性别研究和文学等领域有关。这个项目在今天很重要，因为斯宾诺莎在学院派哲学之外的意义直到最近二十年才得到承认。近年来，通过达马西奥的《寻找斯宾诺莎》（该书将斯宾诺莎与当代神经科学联系起来）和斯图尔特对斯宾诺莎激进政治的研究《朝廷与异教徒》（The Courtier and The异教徒），斯宾诺莎获得了跨学科的大众读者。这些发展意味着斯宾诺莎的作品在今天不仅被用于哲学论证，还被作为文学文本、神学评论、政治宣言和科学计划来研究。在整个英国，许多学科的研究人员在没有网络或社会的情况下对斯宾诺莎进行研究，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把研究人员聚集在一起。会议将包括学者和研究生的论文，使我们能够交流知识，并了解人们如何在学科内外使用斯宾诺莎。我们想要回答的问题是：哲学内外的人是如何使用斯宾诺莎的？在哲学和学术界之外，斯宾诺莎的当代意义是什么？每次会议都围绕一个主题，目的是让一个核心的跨学科小组同时参加。第一篇是关于“身体”，结合了斯宾诺莎在伦理、政治、法律和科学方面的应用。第二部分是关于“文本”，考察斯宾诺莎对神学、文学和历史的重要性，并评估斯宾诺莎作品在历史和当代的流行接受程度。确定斯宾诺莎目前是如何在大学学科内外被研究和使用的，将使我们能够提出进一步的研究问题，并启动关于斯宾诺莎作为跨学科思想家的联合项目。这两次会议将产生一本关于“跨学科斯宾诺莎”的论文编辑集。该网站将为网络提供一个家，并将为研究人员、学生和感兴趣的公众提供资源。我们将鼓励学生和公众通过在线会议论文、资源区、电子文本和国际相关网络的链接以及博客等互动元素参与网络。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协会继续活跃。关于斯宾诺莎的学术团体在许多其他国家都存在，但目前在英国还没有。该协会的目的是促进由该网络建立的进一步的跨学科研究，并为在英国建立更强大的哲学史研究文化做出贡献。

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.