Overview
Offers a powerful and influential interpretation of Spinoza's conatus the essential striving that defines each of us as fundamentally strategic. Spinozism must be understood as a dynamic ontology that necessarily unfolds on practical terrain. Laurent Bove analyses Spinoza's theory of affects as rooted in Habit, generating the constituent power of human beings, commonwealths, nations and multitudes. By interpreting sovereignty as a power that emerges through the active resistance of the always singular body of the multitude, Bove discovers in Spinoza a radically new approach to the State, to citizenship and to history.
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Author: Laurent Bove ,
Hasana Sharp ,
milie Filion-Donato ,
milie Filion-Donato
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474430579
ISBN 10: 1474430570
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 30 September 2023
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"Affirmation and Resistance in Spinoza is a totally new perspective on the relation between ontology and politics in Spinoza. By identifying with clarity and breathtaking acuity the notion of strategy as the negotiation, always contested, between the causality that determines us and the striving for self-preservation, Bove does not only offer a radical new reading of Spinoza, but also a vision of a radical politics of resistance much needed today.-- ""Dimitris Vardoulakis, author of Spinoza, the Epicurean"""
Affirmation and Resistance in Spinoza is a totally new perspective on the relation between ontology and politics in Spinoza. By identifying with clarity and breathtaking acuity the notion of strategy as the negotiation, always contested, between the causality that determines us and the striving for self-preservation, Bove does not only offer a radical new reading of Spinoza, but also a vision of a radical politics of resistance much needed today.-- ""Dimitris Vardoulakis, author of Spinoza, the Epicurean""
Author Information
Laurent Bove is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Universit de Picardie Jules-Verne. He is a member of l'Institut d'Histoire des Repr sentations et des Id es dans les Modernit s l' cole Normale Sup rieure de Lyon and President of l'association des ami.e.s de Spinoza. He is the author of La Strategie du conatus (Vrin, 1996; 2nd edition 2012) which was translated into Italian in 2002 and in Spanish in 2009. His other books include Albert Camus. De l'absurde l'amour (1995), Albert Camus: de la transfiguration (2014), Vauvenargues ou le S ditieux (2015). He is the editor of a French translation of Spinoza's Political Treatise (2002). He is the general editor of The Complete Works of Vauvenargues.Hasana Sharp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. She is author of Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization, among other works. milie Filion-Donato is a McGill Philosophy graduate, Translator, Programmer, and Spinoza enthusiast. milie Filion-Donato is a McGill Philosophy graduate, Translator, Programmer, and Spinoza enthusiast.
