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Collective imaginings : Spinoza, past and present / Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gatens, Moira.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677--Contributions in philosophy of imagination.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677--Contributions in concept of responsibility.
- Imagination (Philosophy).
- Responsibility.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (178 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought?In this intriguing book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us that in spite of or rather because of Spinoza's apparent strangeness, his philosophy can be a rich resource for cultural self-understanding in the present.Collective Imaginings draws on recent re-assessments of the philosophy of Spinoza to develop new ways of conceptualising issues of freedom and difference. This ground-breaking study will be invaluable reading to anyone
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Imagination, freedom and responsibility; Spinoza's imagination; Imagination and bodies; Spinoza's historical sources; The letter to Balling: imagination and omens; Imagination, emotion and sociability in the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus; Imagination and time: hope, fear and contingency; Illusions and fictions; Spinoza's freedom; Stoic images of freedom; Freedom without the will; Imagination, affect and time; The social dimensions of freedom; Re-imagining responsibility
- Spinoza's 'multitude': Balibar on 'transindividuality'Determination and negation: Spinoza and Hegel; Spinozistic responsibility; Communities, difference and the present past; Theology, politics and norms; The story of 'the first man': law as command and law as knowledge; Ethological bodies; Power, politics and norms; Freedom, authority and difference; Freedom and authority in democratic polities; Political fictions and the social imaginary; The identity/difference dilemma; Beyond the liberalism/communitarianism impasse; Responsibility and the past
- Institutional inheritances and responsibilityConflicting imaginaries: terra nullius and Mabo; Are 'we' responsible for the past?; Recognition, freedom and history; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-70815-7
- 0-203-00339-X
- 1-280-11030-9
- 0-203-27132-7
- 1-134-70816-5
- 9780203003398
- OCLC:
- 277655437
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