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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456625403321

Titolo

Spinoza now [[electronic resource] /] / Dimitris Vardoulakis, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4688-4

0-8166-7680-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

VardoulakisDimitris

Disciplina

199/.492

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Strategies for reading Spinoza -- pt. 2. Politics, theology, and interpretation -- pt. 3. Spinoza and the arts -- pt. 4. Encounters about life and death.

Sommario/riassunto

What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This collection, the first broadly interdisciplinary volume dealing with Spinozan thought, asserts the importance of Spinoza's philosophy of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates. Engaging with Spinoza's insistence on the centrality of the passions as the site of the creative and productive forces shaping society, this collection critiques the impulse to transcendence and regimes of mastery, exposing universal values as illusory. ""Spinoza Now"" pursues Spinoza's challenge to abandon the temptation to think thro