Spinoza Beyond Philosophy - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1474404723 ISBN 13: 9781474404723

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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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Recensione:

Each essay in this thought-provoking anthology has something to recommend it independently of one's assessment of its feasibility as a reading of Spinoza. Bringing Spinoza into conversation with architecture, music, revolution, or literature, opens new paths of thought that may--or may not--yield new intellectual insights. Beth Lord must be commended for helping to create the context in which one can deliberate about the particular virtues and vices of these various conversations. --Moira Gatens, University of Sydney, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

L'autore:

Beth Lord is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author ofKant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze(2011) and Spinoza's Ethics: an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (2010), and editor ofSpinoza Beyond Philosophy (2012) and the Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy(2009).

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• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474404723
• ISBN 13: 9781474404723
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
• Redattore: Lord Beth