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DESCRIPTION:Work in Progress Seminar Series | Winter 2023\n\n“An Undergroun
 d Current in the Theory of Desire”\n\nThomas Minguy\n	Friday\, January 20\,
  2023\n	3:30-5:30 PM\n	Leacock Building\, Room 927\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn this p
 aper\, I frame Benedict Spinoza’s notion of desire in terms of a pleasure-
 principle. The philosopher famously defined human essence as desire\, and 
 so to analyse how this essence is organized\, how it navigates the world a
 ccording to what one could call\, with Laurent Bove\, a set of existential
  strategies\, establishes a firm ground on which we can approach the remai
 nder of Spinoza’s thought. But the concept of desire has quite a track rec
 ord in philosophy\, and so to distinguish the Spinozian version from other
 s is far from being simple.\n\nThe interpretation I offer here has two mai
 n implications.\n\nOn the one hand\, I answer the following: how is desire
  organized in Spinoza’s philosophy? My argument relies on the pivotal role
  of pleasure in the move from desire as a form of inertia and desire as an
  expansive movement. Most of the argument here relies on a close reading o
 f a few propositions in the Ethics\, accompanied by a discussion of the re
 adings of Yirmiyahu Yovel and Eugene Garver that also discusses this shift
  in Spinoza’s description of what Michèle Bertrand called “affective econo
 my”.\n\nOn the other hand\, I confront Spinoza’s conceptualization of desi
 re with a contemporary contender\, namely\, the Freudian understanding of 
 psychic life as cashed-out in terms of desire\, also ruled by a pleasure-p
 rinciple. Freud\, I suggest\, remains within a teleological understanding 
 of desire. This gives to Spinoza’s theory a subversive dimension.\n\nToget
 her\, these two moments show that a reading of Spinoza’s philosophy ground
 ed in the conception of desire I propose helps us to reframe Spinozian tho
 ught as a peculiar form of libertine philosophy.\n
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LOCATION:Room 927\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Thomas Minguy\, 'An Underground Current in the Theory of Desire'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/philosophy/channels/event/thomas-minguy-undergrou
 nd-current-theory-desire-344622
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