Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-8905-8 (ISBN)
Zourabichvili’s interpretation of Spinoza’s political philosophy is radically unlike the established tradition. In this book he explores Spinoza’s philosophical theory of change across three different studies. First, within ethical transition, secondly within the image of the infant in Spinoza’s work and third dealing with absolute monarchy which was dominant during Spinoza’s time and provided his polemical writings with a concrete target.
The book’s challenging and carefully-argued claims will be of serious interest to anyone working in political theory, early modern philosophy or contemporary French thought.
François Zourabichvili was a director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Spinoza: Une physique de la pensée (Presses Universitaires de Paris, 2002) Gil Morejón teaches at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on early modern metaphysics and political theory. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and co-edited and co-translated Alexandre Matheron's Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
Reference Conventions
Notes on Translation and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Memory and Form: The State and its Ruin
Amnesia and Formation: The Birth of a State
The Adult Child and Chimeras
First Study. Involving Another Nature / Involving Nature
Ethical Transition in the Short Treatise
Proper Element and Foreign Element (KV II, 26)
A New Birth (KV II, 22)
The Ambivalence of ‘Union’
Ethical Transition in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
The Logic of Ethical Transition: Conversion and Dilemma
The Role of ‘Striving’
he Concept of Institutum: The Logic of Convergence
Distraction, Possession: The Shadow of Transformation
Homo concipiat naturam aliquam humanam sua multo firmiorem
Appendices to the First Study
Second Study. The Rectified Image of Childhood
The Figure of the Infans Adultus
The Child of Scholasticism, and the Contradictions of the Renaissance
The Child of Painting and Medicine
The Child of the Jurists
The Parable of the First Man
Cartesian Voluntarism, Spinozist Voluntarism
Childhood and Philosophy
Infantile Impotence: Neither Privation nor Misery (scholia to Ethics V, 6 and 39)
Note on Gabriel Metsu’s The Sick Child
The Childishness of Men
The Autonomisation of the Body
Childhood and Memory
The Amnesiac Regime of the Fascinated Infans
In what sense is the body of the child ‘as it were in a state of equilibrium’?
Adolescence: Age of Reason or Final Avatar of the Infans Adultus?
What is a Spinozist Pedagogy?
Concluding Remarks on the Relationship to Childhood
Third Study. The Power of God and the Power of Kings
The Confusion of the Two Powers and the Baroque Drift of Cartesianism
Refutation of the Power of Abstention
Refutation of the Power of the Alternative
Ethics I, 33, its Demonstration, and its Second Scholium
The Baroque—or its Banishment?
The Paradoxical Fate of Spinozism: Chimera against Chimera, and How the Relation to Polytheism is Truly Established in Spinoza’s Thought
The Transformist Dream of Absolute Monarchy
The Divinization of Kings
Monarchical Absolutism and Metamorphosis
Royal Absolutism according to Spinoza: a Quintuple Chimera
First Chimera: Behind the King, the Favorites and the Court
Second Chimera: The Tyrannical Dream of Transforming Nature
Third Chimera: Changing Decrees (and the Theory of the King’s Double Mind)
Fourth Chimera: The Death of the King and Succession (TP VII, 25)
Fifth Chimera: Return to Apotheosis, and Theocratic Truth
What is a Free Multitude? War and Civilization
The People that Does Not Fear Death (Praise for the Ancient Hebrews)
Combat and Freedom in the Political Treatise (VII, 22)
Pierre Macherey and François Zourabichvili on Spinoza’s Paradoxical Conservatism
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Spinoza Studies |
| Übersetzer | Gil Morejon |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4744-8905-2 / 1474489052 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4744-8905-8 / 9781474489058 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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