Spinoza's Political Philosophy

The Factory of Imperium

AvRiccardo Caporali

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Riccardo Caporali makes a close and circular connection between metaphysics, ethics and politics in Spinoza's thought. He offers an examination of all of Spinoza's works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. As a result, Spinoza's work and its author, the philosopher and the man, go hand in hand.Focusing on Spinoza's constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works. He highlights specific moments of this discontinuity, particularly in the transition between the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the Tractatus Politicus.Caporali's reconstruction of Spinoza's political philosophy, alongside the historical context and events, is interwoven with comparisons and references to Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Vico and Hegel, as well as to many contemporary interpretations of Spinoza's thought.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-10-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:486 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Spinoza Studies
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474467599
Översättare:Fabio Gironi, Fabio (Independent Researcher) Gironi

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Riccardo Caporali is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is the author of Il netto e il sospetto: a proposito di Machiavelli (Cesena, 2014), La pazienza degli esclusi. Studi su Spinoza (Mimesis, 2012), Uguaglianza (il Mulino, 2012), La tenerezza e la barbarie. Studi su Vico (Liguori, 2006), La fabbrica dell’imperium. Saggio su Spinoza (Liguori, 2000) and Heroes gentium. Sapienza e politica in Vico (il Mulino, 1992). This is his first book to be translated into English. Fabio Gironi is an independent researcher. He is the author of Analytic and Continental Kantianism: The Legacy of Kant in Sellars and Meillassoux (Routledge, 2017) and Naturalizing Badiou: Mathematical Ontology and Structural Realism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He is the translator of Becoming Animal: Philosophy of Animality After Deleuze by Felice Cimatti (EUP, 2020).

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Developing an interpretation of Baruch Spinoza’s political thought, Caporali surveys the Theological-Political Treatise and the unfinished Political Treatise, but roots his analysis in the metaphysics of Spinoza’s masterwork, the Ethics. Caporali begins with the concept of causa sui (cause of itself), which frames God’s causal power not as will or authority but as the generative unity of substance. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

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Introduction: ‘I am a good Republican’1. Metaphysics and PoliticsNon nimis improprie (Descartes)‘Therefore it will be the cause of itself’ (Spinoza)Causa rerumEo sensu2. Towards a Political OrderThe imagination of order (premise)The conatusNothing is more useful to manNatural LawThe artifice of nature3. A Militant Design: The Theological-Political TreatisePhilosophy and theologyObedienceUniversal faithThe free RepublicThe pactum4. Between Realism and Project: The Political TreatiseRealismMultitudoThe Kinds of StateOn MonarchyThe AristocracyAbsolutum, sive democratiaThe patience of the excludedBibliographyA. Works by SpinozaB. Other AbbreviationsC. Secondary LiteratureIndex