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Spinoza and Politics

By Étienne Balibar , Warren Montag , Peter Snowdon

Book information

Publisher
Verso
Year
2008
ISBN
9781844672059, 1844672050
Open Library ID
OL9349988M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
14 MB (14269258 bytes)
Series
Radical Thinkers
Pages
82\82
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

A rich analysis of Spinoza's key works within the context of his political, religious and ideological life. With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza's major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza's major treatises in the period in which they were written. In successive chapters, he examines the political situation in the United Provinces during Spinoza's lifetime, Spinoza's own religious and ideological associations, the concept of democracy developed in the Theologico-Political Treatise, the theory of the state advanced in the Political Treatise and the anthropological basis for politics established in the Ethics.

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