Jerome Bruner points out in his prologue to the first volume of the English translation of The Collected Works that Vygotsky flirts with the idea that language creates free will. This paper attempts to consider the influence of the Dutch seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza on Vygotsky. An account of Spinoza's anti-Cartesian conception of will is given, to which Vygotsky recognises his indeb...

a renewed interest in the theory of emotions both in philosophy and psychology. Work in this area has relied heavily on certain seventeenth-century philosophical theories of emotion (at the time variously termed theories of “passion”, “affect”, or even “action”). I shall start this paper by giving a very brief overview of the place of emotion theory in seventeenth-century art and thought. This ...

As was shown by Sen, type IIB string theory admits configurations where strings of different charges (pi, qi) form so-called string networks. We argue that these networks blow up into “supersheets”: supersymmetric spinning cylindrical D3-branes carrying electric and magnetic fluxes. These supersheets are three-dimensional generalizations of the supertubes that were constructed by Mateos and Tow...

La sentencia que titula el presente artículo es determinante para comprender cómo Spinoza entiende lo político; utilizando la referencia a Quinto Curcio Rufo, holandés nos transmite no como un consejo de gobierno, sino manera crítica, demostrando superstición dispositivo afectivo político determina una forma ejercer poder través manipulación afectiva y perpetuación las formas pasivas implica. A...

El tratado metodológico de Spinoza, llamado Tratado la reforma del entendimiento, introduce al lector con declaración un objetivo puramente ético, obtención felicidad. La cual, identificada virtud, es también el último filosofía. Es evidente, a partir dicha introducción, que existe una relación entre método y ética, pero su naturaleza no todo clara. Así pues, cabe preguntarse: ¿se trata puede p...

This essay responds to Badiou’s charge that Deleuze fails to set forth a philosophy that is “beyond categorical oppositions.” It is argued that this criticism of Deleuze is founded upon a misreading of the Deleuzean distinction between the virtual and the actual, a reading that carries forward Badiou’s misreading of Spinoza and, hence, of Deleuze’s Spinozism. With this corrected, we show how th...

O objetivo principal deste trabalho consiste em incluir Friedrich Nietzsche no contexto de uma leitura heterodoxa do núcleo filosófico problemas implicados na correspondência entre Heinrich Jacobi e Moses Mendelsohn a respeito sistema Spinoza, fazendo-o pelo viés da mantida Fichte panteísmo, ateísmo niilismo.