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Spinoza Beyond Philosophy Spiral-Bound |

Beth Lord (Edited by)

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This book of 10 engaging and original essays brings Spinoza outside the realm of academic philosophy, and presents him as a thinker who is relevant to contemporary problems and questions across a variety of disciplines.

Discover how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective subjectivity' in contemporary politics. Learn how Spinoza's idea of freedom was instrumental to the Haitian revolution of 1791, and how it inspired Samuel Taylor Coleridge's prose and George Eliot's novels. Find out how contemporary architecture, ecological activism, and the concept of human nature can be rethought through Spinoza's theory of affectivity. These 10 new essays reveal Spinoza's connection to literature, politics, the environment and beyond.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Original Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224 pages
ISBN-10: 1474404723
Item Weight: 0.8 lbs
Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.97 x 9.2 inches

"Each essay in this thought-provoking anthology has something to recommend it independently of one's assessment of its feasibility as a reading of Spinoza. Bringing Spinoza into conversation with architecture, music, revolution, or literature, opens new paths of thought that may--or may not--yield new intellectual insights. Beth Lord must be commended for helping to create the context in which one can deliberate about the particular virtues and vices of these various conversations."--Moira Gatens, University of Sydney, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Beth Lord is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze (2011) and Spinoza’s Ethics: an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (2010), and editor of Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (2012) and the Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy (2009).