Democratic Thought from Machiavelli to Spinoza : Freedom, Equality, Multitude / Sonja Lavaert and Albert Gootjes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavaert, Sonja, 1958- author.

Gootjes, Albert, author.

Series:

Spinoza studies.

Spinoza Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2024]

Summary:

A genealogy of the concept of the multitude and Spinoza's democratic political philosophy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Notes on Translation and Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

I Machiavellis Example

II Fictions, Laws and Religions

III Lieutenants

IV A Political Balance (Between Passions and Reason, State Interest and the Multitude)

V. The Example of the Indians

VI. Translation and Truth: A Dialogue

VII. Spinozas Reversal

VIII. Une mauvaise rhapsodie, un artifice

IX. Quodlibet. In the Spirit of Machiavelli

Appendix. The Manuscript Finis est in Holandia

Bibliography

Index of names

Anonymous texts

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1-3995-3052-6