Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza: The Unity of Body and Mind - Couverture souple

Jaquet, Chantal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474433197 ISBN 13 : 9781474433198

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2019

Synopsis

It is widely recognised that Spinoza ended the Cartesian dualism of body and mind by thinking through the possibility of their unity. Revisiting this generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through the affects that bring together a body's affection and the idea of this affection. Jaquet reveals that understanding affects, actions and passions provides the key to how the mind and body are the same individual expressed in two different ways. She presents the Spinozist model in all its complexity, illuminating its potentialities for contemporary debates on the nature of the mind-body problem.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Chantal Schütz is Head of Department of Languages and Cultures at the École Polytechnique, Paris. Her recent work is on early modern broadside ballads; Thomas Middleton; Shakespeare; and performances history

Tatiana Reznichenko is a freelance translator and conference interpreter based in Paris.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474433197
• ISBN 13: 9781474433198
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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