Spinoza and Politics - Couverture souple

Balibar, Etienne; Montag, Warren

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844672050 ISBN 13 : 9781844672059

Editeur : Verso Books, 2008

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Étienne Balibar is a French Marxist philosopher and the most celebrated student of Louis Althusser. He is also one of the leading exponents of French Marxist philosophy and the author of Spinoza and Politics, The Philosophy of Marx and co-author of Race, Nation and Class and Reading Capital.

Warren Montag is Associate Professor of English at Occidental College, Los Angeles. He is the author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and his Contemporaries and the Unthinkable Swift.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844672050
• ISBN 13: 9781844672059
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160