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Spinoza Beyond Philosophy / Beth Lord.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 5 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748644803
  • 9780748644810
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 199.492 23
LOC classification:
  • B3998 .S72775 2012
  • B3998 .S72775 2012
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. ‘Subjectivity Without the Subject’: Thinking Beyond the Subject with / through Spinoza -- 2. Spinoza’s Non-Humanist Humanism -- 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza Towards an Affective Ecology -- 4. Spinoza’s Architectural Passages and Geometric Comportments -- 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism -- Interlude LANCE BREWER, ‘SHADOWS’ -- 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza’s Political Ontology Today -- 7. Spinoza’s Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology -- 8. Which Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza, Jacobinism and Black Jacobinism -- 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature -- 10. Coleridge’s Ecumenical Spinoza -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Summary: These 10 engaging and original essays argue that Spinoza is the interdisciplinary thinker for our times This book brings Spinoza outside the realm of academic philosophy, and presents him as a thinker who is relevant to contemporary problems and questions across a variety of disciplines.Discover how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective subjectivity' in contemporary politics. Learn how Spinoza's idea of freedom was instrumental to the Haitian revolution of 1791, and how it inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge's prose and George Eliot's novels. Find out how early modern physics, contemporary architecture, and ecological activism can be rethought through Spinoza's theory of affectivity.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. ‘Subjectivity Without the Subject’: Thinking Beyond the Subject with / through Spinoza -- 2. Spinoza’s Non-Humanist Humanism -- 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza Towards an Affective Ecology -- 4. Spinoza’s Architectural Passages and Geometric Comportments -- 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism -- Interlude LANCE BREWER, ‘SHADOWS’ -- 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza’s Political Ontology Today -- 7. Spinoza’s Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology -- 8. Which Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza, Jacobinism and Black Jacobinism -- 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature -- 10. Coleridge’s Ecumenical Spinoza -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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These 10 engaging and original essays argue that Spinoza is the interdisciplinary thinker for our times This book brings Spinoza outside the realm of academic philosophy, and presents him as a thinker who is relevant to contemporary problems and questions across a variety of disciplines.Discover how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective subjectivity' in contemporary politics. Learn how Spinoza's idea of freedom was instrumental to the Haitian revolution of 1791, and how it inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge's prose and George Eliot's novels. Find out how early modern physics, contemporary architecture, and ecological activism can be rethought through Spinoza's theory of affectivity.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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