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Collective imaginings : Spinoza, past and present /
Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought? In this book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us that in spite of, or rather because of, Spinoza's apparent strangeness, his philosophy can be a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[London] :
Taylor & Francis,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Imagination, freedom and responsibility; Spinoza's imagination; Imagination and bodies; Spinoza's historical sources; The letter to Balling: imagination and omens; Imagination, emotion and sociability in the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus; Imagination and time: hope, fear and contingency; Illusions and fictions; Spinoza's freedom; Stoic images of freedom; Freedom without the will; Imagination, affect and time; The social dimensions of freedom; Re-imagining responsibility
- Spinoza's 'multitude': Balibar on 'transindividuality'Determination and negation: Spinoza and Hegel; Spinozistic responsibility; Communities, difference and the present past; Theology, politics and norms; The story of 'the first man': law as command and law as knowledge; Ethological bodies; Power, politics and norms; Freedom, authority and difference; Freedom and authority in democratic polities; Political fictions and the social imaginary; The identity/difference dilemma; Beyond the liberalism/communitarianism impasse; Responsibility and the past
- Institutional inheritances and responsibilityConflicting imaginaries: terra nullius and Mabo; Are 'we' responsible for the past?; Recognition, freedom and history; Notes; Bibliography; Index