Spinoza's Political Philosophy

The Factory of Imperium

Riccardo Caporali (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2023
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-6760-5 (ISBN)

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Riccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza’s works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. Focusing on Spinoza’s constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works.

Riccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza’s works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. Spinoza’s work and its author – the philosopher and the man – go hand in hand. Focusing on Spinoza’s constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works. He highlights specific moments of this discontinuity, particularly in the transition between the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the Tractatus Politicus. And he weaves in comparisons and references to Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Vico and Hegel, and to many contemporary interpretations of Spinoza’s thought.

Riccardo Caporali is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is the author of Il netto e il sospetto: a proposito di Machiavelli (Cesena, 2014), La pazienza degli esclusi. Studi su Spinoza (Mimesis, 2012), Uguaglianza (il Mulino, 2012), La tenerezza e la barbarie. Studi su Vico (Liguori, 2006), La fabbrica dell’imperium. Saggio su Spinoza (Liguori, 2000) and Heroes gentium. Sapienza e politica in Vico (il Mulino, 1992). This is his first book to be translated into English. Fabio Gironi is an independent researcher. He is the author of Analytic and Continental Kantianism: The Legacy of Kant in Sellars and Meillassoux (Routledge, 2017) and Naturalizing Badiou: Mathematical Ontology and Structural Realism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He is the translator of Becoming Animal: Philosophy of Animality After Deleuze by Felice Cimatti (EUP, 2020).

Introduction: ‘I am a good Republican’

1. Metaphysics and PoliticsNon nimis improprie (Descartes)‘Therefore it will be the cause of itself’ (Spinoza)Causa rerumEo sensu

2. Towards a Political OrderThe imagination of order (premise)The conatusNothing is more useful to manNatural LawThe artifice of nature

3. A Militant Design: The Theological-Political TreatisePhilosophy and theologyObedienceUniversal faithThe free RepublicThe pactum

4. Between Realism and Project: The Political TreatiseRealismMultitudoThe Kinds of StateOn MonarchyThe AristocracyAbsolutum, sive democratiaThe patience of the excluded

BibliographyA. Works by SpinozaB. Other AbbreviationsC. Secondary Literature

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Erscheinungsdatum	20.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Spinoza Studies
Übersetzer	Fabio Gironi
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	1-4744-6760-1 / 1474467601
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-6760-5 / 9781474467605
Zustand	Neuware