Spinoza Beyond Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9781474404723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str.

Beth Lord; Beth Lord

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.