Preface: The Philosophy of Hope
Introduction: Beatitude and Philosophy
1. Life as Death
2. Metaphysical Desire
3. Ambition and the Fall
4. Empty Glory
5. The Repose of the Soul
6. Escaping Death
7. Escaping Sin
8. Glory and Love
9. God in Everyone
Conclusion: The Hope of Philosophy.
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Alexander Douglas is a senior lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. He is the author of Spinoza and Dutch Cartesianism: Philosophy and Theology and The Philosophy of Debt. He is currently working on a study of the critique of identity in Zhuangzi, Spinoza, and René Girard.
'… significantly advances current scholarship particularly regarding Spinoza’s religious-existential themes…an exceptionally intimate encounter with Spinoza’s philosophy that asks us to reflect on the relation of experience and philosophy, and even to revise our conception of philosophy itself. - Johannes Wagner, British Journal for the History of Philosophy
