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Spinoza Beyond Philosophy

By Beth Lord

Book information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780748644810
DOI
10.1515/9780748644810
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1828244 bytes)
Pages
224\222
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 04:04:40

Description

These 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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