Spinoza's Political Treatise (eBook, ePUB)

A Critical Guide
Redaktion: Melamed, Yitzhak Y.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Spinoza's Political Treatise constitutes the very last stage in the development of his thought, as he left the manuscript incomplete at the time of his death in 1677. On several crucial issues - for example, the new conception of the 'free multitude' - the work goes well beyond his Theological Political Treatise (1670), and arguably presents ideas that were not fully developed even in his Ethics. This volume of newly commissioned essays on the Political Treatise is the first collection in English to be dedicated specifically to the work, ranging over topics including political explanation, national religion, the civil state, vengeance, aristocratic government, and political luck. It will be a major resource for scholars who are interested in this important but still neglected work, and in Spinoza's political philosophy more generally.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316762158
• Artikelnr.: 54094362

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Hasana Sharp; 1. What is real about
'ideal constitutions'? - Spinoza on political explanation Michael A.
Rosenthal; 2. Statesmen vs. philosophers: experience and method in
Spinoza's Political Treatise Julie E. Cooper; 3. The condition of human
nature: Spinoza's account of the ground of human action in the Tractatus
Politicus Moira Gatens; 4. Politically mediated affects: envy in Spinoza's
Tractatus Politicus Susan James; 5. Longing (desiderium) for vengeance as
the foundation of the commonwealth Chantal Jacquet; 6. Family quarrels and
mental harmony: Spinoza's Oikos-Polis analogy Hasana Sharp; 7. Spinoza on
national religion Mogens Laerke; 8. Religion and the civil state in the
Tractatus Politicus Daniel Garber; 9. Spinoza on aristocratic and
democratic government Theo Verbek; 10. When is having too much power
harmful? - Spinoza on political luck Yitzhak Y. Melamed; 11. Spinoza and
political absolutism Justin Steinberg; 12. The revolutionary foundation of
political modernity: Machiavelli, Spinoza, and constituent power Filippo
Del Lucchese.