{"product_id":"spinoza-and-the-politics-of-freedom-9781474478403","title":"Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn Spinoza's philosophy, human freedom is seen as intrinsically social and politically committed. This book offers a new reading of Spinoza's Latin that presents fresh textual findings from critical editions and engages with diverse hermeneutic traditions. It critically examines key concepts such as the conatus, desire, freedom, collective power, voluntary servitude, and the politicization of joyous affects. The book contextualizes Spinoza's accounts within past and present critical theory and re-establishes him as a collectivist philosopher. It argues that Spinoza's vision of human freedom and power is realized socially and collectively through desire, friendship, imagination, and transforming social institutions. This book contributes to the continental tradition of Spinozism and offers a fresh perspective on debates about democracy, the multitude, populism, and power. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 304 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 30 November 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReconceives human freedom in Spinoza as intrinsically social and politically committed\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffers a reading fluent in Spinoza's Latin that presents new textual findings from recent critical editions of his works as well as emerging French scholarship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCritically engages with a diverse set of hermeneutic traditions in Spinoza studies, including historicist, continental, and analytic approaches, as well as those of different political backgrounds like Marxism, feminism, liberalism, and deep ecology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents a new analysis of key Spinozan and neo-Spinozist concepts like the conatus, desire, freedom, collective power, the multitude, voluntary servitude, and the politicisation of joyous affects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContextualises and debates Spinoza's accounts of collective power, democracy, agency, and desire with past and present critical theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCombining careful historical and textual analysis with comparisons across past and present political theory, this book re-establishes Spinoza as a collectivist philosopher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking as its starting point the formative role of fear in Spinoza's thought, Dan Taylor argues that Spinoza's vision of human freedom and power is realised socially and collectively. He offers a new critical study of the collectivist Spinoza, where we can become freer through desire, friendship, the imagination, and transforming the social institutions that structure a given community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA freedom for one and all, attuned to the vicissitudes of human life and the capabilities of each one of us to live up to the demands and constraints of our limited autonomy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book develops and enriches the continental tradition of Spinozism, drawing on a range of untranslated materials and bringing a fresh perspective to key debates. It repositions Spinoza as the central thinker of desire and freedom and demonstrates his enduring relevance to contemporary political and philosophical debates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 470g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 156 x 234 x 22 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781474478403\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dan Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44096234979578,"sku":"9781474478403","price":17.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1676642236626_book.jpg?v=1676912766","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/spinoza-and-the-politics-of-freedom-9781474478403","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}