Overview
- Compares and contrasts the work of Spinoza, Darwin, and Marx
- Considers the reasons for continued popularity of transcendent religious discourses
- Explores the relevance of the debate over immanence and transcendence for contemporary life
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (10 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Spinoza and Marx
-
Front Matter
-
-
History and Subjectivity: A Marxist Perspective
-
Front Matter
-
-
Religious Growth in the Contemporary World
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Marx, Spinoza and Darwin presents a common thread in its argument: it shows how these authors—certainly with differences among themselves—consolidated a field of investigation that does not resort to transcendent or religious premises in approaching the phenomena they analyze. Thus, when Spinoza declared that the “will of God” is the “sanctuary of ignorance,” when Marx provocatively maintained that “criticism of religion is the premise of all criticism,” or when Darwin polemicized against a millennial creationist approach, all were taking a stand that invited us to view our world through a secular and immanent lens. In addition to this common thread, Martins discusses other issues present in the works of these thinkers, for instance the space that exists for human subjectivity from a Marxist perspective (which is not to be confused with philosophical “objectivism”): men and women are encouraged to act in the world. With this conceptual background, the concluding chapters of the book address the proliferation of some less examined Christian fundamentalisms in contemporary world, presenting an explanatory hypothesis for the phenomenon.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Mauricio Vieira Martins is a retired Professor at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, where he is still active in the Center for Studies and Research on Marx and Marxism (NIEP/Marx).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marx, Spinoza and Darwin
Book Subtitle: Materialism, Subjectivity and Critique of Religion
Authors: Mauricio Vieira Martins
Translated by: Jeffrey Hoff
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13025-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13024-3Published: 10 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13027-4Published: 11 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13025-0Published: 09 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 266
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion