Overview

Spinoza’s political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. Spinoza’s Authority Volume I: Resistance and Power in Ethics makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of Spinoza’s political thought by focusing on his posthumously published Ethics. By taking the concept of authority as an original framework, this books asks: How is authority related to ethics, ontology, and epistemology? What are the social, historical and representational processes that produce authority and resistance? And what are the conditions of effective resistance? Spinoza’s Authority features a roster of internationally established theorists of Spinoza’s work, and covers key elements of Spinoza's political philosophy, including: questions of authority, the resistance to authority, sovereign power, democratic control, and the role of Spinoza's ""multitudes"".

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Author:   A. Kiarina Kordela (Macalester College, USA) ,  Dimitris Vardoulakis (University of Western Sydney, Australia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9781350123243

ISBN 10:   1350123242
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   27 June 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Reference Guide and List of Abbreviations Preface A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis Chapter 1: Equality and Power: Spinoza’s Reformulation of the Aristotelian Tradition of Egalitarianism Dimitris Vardoulakis Chapter 2: Spinoza’s Ethics and Politics of Freedom: Active and Passive Power Aurelia Armstrong Chapter 3: Grammars of Conatus: or, On the Primacy of Resistance in Spinoza, Foucault, and Deleuze Cesare Casarino Chapter 4: Beyond Legitimacy: The State as an Imaginary Entity in Spinoza’s Political Ontology Juan Domingo Sánchez Estop Chapter 5: The Cold Quietness of the Stars: Proof, Rhetoric, and the Authority of Reason in the Ethics Joseph Hughes Chapter 6: Spinoza: A Different Power to Act Antonio Negri Chapter 7: Commanding the Body: The Language of Subjection in Ethics III, P2S Warren Montag Chapter 8: Interrupting the System: Spinoza and Maroon Thought James Edward Ford III Chapter 9: Spinoza’s Biopolitics: Commodification of Substance, and Secular Immortality A. Kiarina Kordela Bibliography Index

Reviews

The two volumes of Spinoza's Authority have a great deal to offer students and working scholars alike. They contribute to the continental tradition of the interpretation of Spinoza, and they also describe Spinozism as an approach to current social and political issues. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * This is an excellent and timely collection of studies of Spinoza's political philosophy. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date panoramic view of the engagement with Spinoza's politics from within the tradition of continental philosophy * Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy and the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University, USA *

Author Information

A. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German and Director of the Critical Theory Program, at Macalester College, and honorary adjunct professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. Dimitris Vardoulakis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

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