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Connelly, Stephen (2015) Spinoza : cosmopolitanism for the love of multitudes. In: Caraus, Tamara and Paris, Elena, (eds.) Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781315691534
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315691534
Abstract
This chapter sketches out the journey Spinoza makes from formal being to the concept of infinite machine understood as the inexhaustible source of a post-foundational fostering power in the world. I show the genetic link between the mind as fosterer of affects, and the city of such minds as the fosterer of multitudes. Spinoza (echoing Hobbes and Machiavelli) feels that the methodology appropriate to multitudes must begin from the perspective of power. I claim that Spinoza’s Tractatus politicus, deploys such a methodology in which the multitude forms a particular moment of the political process. I advance an alternative methodology, still focused through the lens of power, which discloses the possibility of the super-multitude.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 -- Tractatus politicus -- Criticism and interpretation | ||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
Place of Publication: | New York | ||||||
ISBN: | 9781315691534 | ||||||
Book Title: | Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism | ||||||
Editor: | Caraus, Tamara and Paris, Elena | ||||||
Official Date: | 19 November 2015 | ||||||
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Number of Pages: | 276 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.4324/9781315691534 | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Re-Grounding Cosmopolitanism on 19 Nov 2015, available online: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315691534 | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 May 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 May 2019 |
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