From Reality without Mysteries to the Mystery of the World: Marilena Chaui’s Reading of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

From Reality without Mysteries to the Mystery of the World: Marilena Chaui’s Reading of Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

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This article offers an overview of Marilena Chaui’s reading of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (TTP).Chaui has published numerous books and essays on Baruch Spinoza.Her two-volume study The Nerve of Reality is the culmination of a decades-long engagement with the Tie On Dutch philosopher, and her research has been a valuable resource for generations of Latin American scholars.

From this extensive output, we focus on Chaui’s main texts Nightstand on the theological-political, concentrating on her analysis of the concept of superstition and the philosophical language of the TTP, which Chaui calls a “counter-discourse”.Spinoza’s enduring relevance for the interpretation of contemporary phenomena is clarified by Chaui’s analysis of the TTP, which establishes a fundamentally political understanding of superstition.