Spinoza Beyond Philosophy - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474404723 ISBN 13 : 9781474404723

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Features 10 engaging and original essays reveals that Spinoza is the interdisciplinary thinker for our times. What did Spinoza ever do for us? 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 contemporary architecture, ecological activism and the concept of human nature can be rethought through Spinoza's theory of affectivity. These 10 new essays reveal Spinoza's connection to literature, politics, the environment and beyond. Takes Spinoza beyond the philosophy classroom and shows how his thought is deeply connected to a variety of fields of study: ecology, architecture, politics, literature, history and music and presents Spinoza in a new light: as a thinker whose ideas have always been relevant for problem solving across disciplinary boundaries.

Revue de presse

Each essay in this thought-provoking anthology has something to recommend it independently of one's assessment of its feasibility as a reading of Spinoza. Bringing Spinoza into conversation with architecture, music, revolution, or literature, opens new paths of thought that may--or may not--yield new intellectual insights. Beth Lord must be commended for helping to create the context in which one can deliberate about the particular virtues and vices of these various conversations. --Moira Gatens, University of Sydney, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1474404723
• ISBN 13: 9781474404723
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Éditeur: Lord Beth