Spinoza beyond philosophy
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Spinoza beyond philosophy
Edinburgh University Press, c2012
- : hardback
Available at 6 libraries
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"This book is the outcome of the research activities of the Spinoza research network, a two-year project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC; www.ahrc.ac.uk) in 2008 to 2010." --P.vii
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
These of 12 engaging and original essays reveals that Spinoza is the interdisciplinary thinker for our times. 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 contemporary architecture, ecological activism, and the concept of human nature can be rethought through Spinoza's theory of affectivity.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction - Beth Lord
- 1. 'Subjectivity without the subject': Thinking beyond the subject with/through Spinoza - Caroline Williams
- 2. Spinoza's Non-Humanist Humanism - Michael Mack
- 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza Towards an Affective Ecology - Anthony Paul Smith
- 4. Spinoza's architectural passages and geometric comportments - Peg Rawes
- 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism - Amy Cimini
- Interlude: Lance Brewer, Christina Rawls, Shelley Campbell
- 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza's Political Ontology Today - Mateusz Janik
- 7. Spinoza's Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology - Dimitris Vardoulakis
- 8. Which Radical Enlightenment?: Spinoza, Jacobinism, and Black Jacobinism - Nick Nesbitt
- 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature - Simon Calder
- 10. Coleridge's Ecumenical Spinoza - Nicholas Halmi
- Index.
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