Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474489058
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English 700
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Short description:
François Zourabichvili wrote two major contributions to Spinoza scholarship. While Une physique de la pensée (PUF, 2002) concerns Spinoza?s epistemology and metaphysics of ideas, Spinoza?s Paradoxical Conservatism focuses on his political philosophy.
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François Zourabichvili wrote two major contributions to Spinoza scholarship. While Une physique de la pensée (PUF, 2002) concerns Spinoza?s epistemology and metaphysics of ideas, Spinoza?s Paradoxical Conservatism focuses on his political philosophy.
Zourabichvili?s interpretation of Spinoza?s political philosophy is radically unlike the established tradition. In this book he explores Spinoza?s philosophical theory of change across three different studies. First, within ethical transition, secondly within the image of the infant in Spinoza?s work and third dealing with absolute monarchy which was dominant during Spinoza?s time and provided his polemical writings with a concrete target.
The book?s challenging and carefully-argued claims will be of serious interest to anyone working in political theory, early modern philosophy or contemporary French thought.
Table of Contents:
Reference ConventionsNotes on Translation and AcknowledgmentsIntroduction
Memory and Form: The State and its RuinAmnesia and Formation: The Birth of a StateThe Adult Child and Chimeras
First Study. Involving Another Nature / Involving NatureEthical Transition in the Short Treatise
Proper Element and Foreign Element (KV II, 26)A New Birth (KV II, 22)The Ambivalence of ‘Union’
Ethical Transition in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
The Logic of Ethical Transition: Conversion and DilemmaThe Role of ‘Striving’he Concept of Institutum: The Logic of ConvergenceDistraction, Possession: The Shadow of TransformationHomo concipiat naturam aliquam humanam sua multo firmiorem
Appendices to the First StudySecond Study. The Rectified Image of ChildhoodThe Figure of the Infans Adultus
The Child of Scholasticism, and the Contradictions of the RenaissanceThe Child of Painting and MedicineThe Child of the JuristsThe Parable of the First ManCartesian Voluntarism, Spinozist Voluntarism
Childhood and Philosophy
Infantile Impotence: Neither Privation nor Misery (scholia to Ethics V, 6 and 39)Note on Gabriel Metsu’s The Sick ChildThe Childishness of MenThe Autonomisation of the Body
Childhood and Memory
The Amnesiac Regime of the Fascinated InfansIn what sense is the body of the child ‘as it were in a state of equilibrium’?Adolescence: Age of Reason or Final Avatar of the Infans Adultus?What is a Spinozist Pedagogy?
Concluding Remarks on the Relationship to ChildhoodThird Study. The Power of God and the Power of KingsThe Confusion of the Two Powers and the Baroque Drift of Cartesianism
Refutation of the Power of AbstentionRefutation of the Power of the AlternativeEthics I, 33, its Demonstration, and its Second ScholiumThe Baroque—or its Banishment?The Paradoxical Fate of Spinozism: Chimera against Chimera, and How the Relation to Polytheism is Truly Established in Spinoza’s Thought
The Transformist Dream of Absolute Monarchy
The Divinization of KingsMonarchical Absolutism and MetamorphosisRoyal Absolutism according to Spinoza: a Quintuple ChimeraFirst Chimera: Behind the King, the Favorites and the CourtSecond Chimera: The Tyrannical Dream of Transforming NatureThird Chimera: Changing Decrees (and the Theory of the King’s Double Mind)Fourth Chimera: The Death of the King and Succession (TP VII, 25)Fifth Chimera: Return to Apotheosis, and Theocratic Truth
What is a Free Multitude? War and Civilization
The People that Does Not Fear Death (Praise for the Ancient Hebrews)Combat and Freedom in the Political Treatise (VII, 22)
Pierre Macherey and François Zourabichvili on Spinoza’s Paradoxical ConservatismWorks CitedIndex
