Necrophilia or Removing Spinoza from His Grave

Abstract

Spinoza’s name has been referred in today’s academic world as the most distinguised exponents of political philosophy. Either Marxists and feminist or liberals find very important points of departure in terms of their theories. In these theories, it is claimed that his philisophy is beyond every kinds of essentialism and teleology. For example, from the Marxist viewpoint, Spinoza can help to solve the current problems of Marxizm. In addition to this, according to liberals, it is possible to find the foundations of emancipatory and individualistic politics in Spinoza’s philosophy. On the other side, feminists argue that the ancient body-mind problem is overcomed by Spinoza. The aim of this study is to show that the Spinoza’s philosophy has excessively been abused. Intellectuals attribute so much meaning to his philisophy. However, the problems claimed that solved by Spinoza are with us today.