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Conflict, power, and multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza : tumult and indignation / Filippo Del Lucchese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Del Lucchese, Filippo, 1969-
- Series:
- Continuum studies in philosophy.
- Continuum studies in philosophy
- Standardized Title:
- Tumulti e indignatio. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò, 1469-1527.
- Machiavelli, Niccolò.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
- Spinoza, Benedictus de.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza explores Spinoza's political philosophy by confronting it with that of Niccolò Machiavelli. Filippo Del Lucchese conducts a study of the relationship between Machiavelli and Spinoza from a perspective at once philosophical, historical and political. The book begins by showing how closely tied the two thinkers are in relation to realism. Del Lucchese then goes on to examine the theme of conflict as a crucial element of an understanding of Machiavelli and Spinoza's conceptions of modernity. The book concludes with an examination of the con
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; Part I: Realism; Introduction to Part I; Chapter 1 The Sky, the Sun, the Elements, Man: Necessity and Occasion in the Realism of Machiavelli and Spinoza; Chapter 2 "Freedom" and the "Common Good" or, in Other Words, Tyranny; Part II: Conflict; Introduction to Part II; Chapter 3 Spoliatis Arma Supersunt, Furor Arma Ministrat: Philosophy as Resistance; Chapter 4 Jerusalem and Rome; Chapter 5 Iustitia et Armi; Part III: Multitude; Introduction to Part III; Chapter 6 Quid Corpus Possit Nemo Hucusque Determinavit: The Spinozist "War Cry"; Chapter 7 Individual Multiple Being
- NotesBibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; X; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-45307-6
- 1-4411-8348-5
- OCLC:
- 647873032
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