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""Compelling, dazzling, and upbeat, Kletenik's Sovereignty Disrupted offers a fresh and inspiring new outlook on Spinoza's philosophical project as profoundly critical move to change the way we live and think. The best book on Spinoza I have read in many years."" --Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto ""It is rare to find a thorough and compelling reading of a great philosophical classic, Spinoza's Ethics, that upends some of the central presumptions about sovereignty that have populated standard readings for many years. Kletenik shows that sovereign rule functions neither as a political form nor as a model of conceptual mastery in that work. The implications of this thesis include the critique of anthropocentrism, and the socially idealized human form upon which it depends. The book offers a way to expose and criticize social inequalities in light of a political theology that prompts us all to question what we thought we know about what is and what ought to be."" --Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley

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Gilah Kletenik is Hazel D. Cole Postdoctoral Fellow, Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington.

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