Some glimmers of the light of Spinoza: from a metaphor of Dilthey to lightning in Romain Rolland
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.29.2012.5314Keywords:
crystal, sparkling, transparent, lightning, eternity, substance, oceanic, feeling,Abstract
Spinoza’s character and work have aroused the curiosity, approval and even worship of countless academics, philosophers, and men of letters. Their descriptions of their encounters with the Dutch philosopher are usually loaded with luminous as well as crystalline and even igneous metaphors. In this article, I will start out from one of Dilthey’s metaphors that compares Spinoza’s philosophy to a sparkling, transparent crystal. I will then consider the double interpretational dimension that these two adjectives might have in relation to understanding spinoza’s views: respectively, emotion (sparkling), and reasoning (transparent). Finally, I will discuss in detail a writing that I believe to be one of the most relevant ones about the almost sacred nature of the gleaming illumination that stems from reading Spinoza’s works: L’éclair de Spinoza, by Romain Rolland.Downloads
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2012-06-01
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Benito Olalla, P. (2012). Some glimmers of the light of Spinoza: from a metaphor of Dilthey to lightning in Romain Rolland. ENDOXA, 1(29), 133–164. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.29.2012.5314
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