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This book is a systematic study of the paradoxical character of Spinoza's political philosophy, theory of change, and conception of childhood by one of his most original interpreters. Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism highlights the radical novelty of the philosopher's work while drawing attention to previously underappreciated aspects of his philosophy and providing decisive historical context for his interventions in political theory and pedagogy. The problem of transformation in Spinoza's philosophy is explored across three studies: one on ethical conversion and becoming wise, one on childhood and growing up, and one on absolute monarchy and the 'free multitude'. This volume contains as an appendix a discussion with Pierre Macherey, whose critical response to the book provided an occasion for the author to clarify the themes and stakes of the investigation.
Contents
Reference Conventions
Notes on Translation and Acknowledgments
Introduction to Spinozist Modernism, by Eric Aldieri and Gil Morejón
Introduction
Chapter I: The New Concept of Form
1. Simultaneous Transport: The Inconsistency of the Cartesian Composite
2. The Piece of Wax: Quantity of Matter and Identity
3. Individual and Species in Spinoza
4. Chemical and Political Community
5. What Happens to the Notion of Form in Descartes
CH 2: Chapter II: The Concept of 'Relation of Motion and Rest' and Its Polysemy
1. Which Relation between Motion and Rest? (the Short Treatise)
2. The Relation of Motion and Rest between Parts (the Ethics)
3. The Interpretation of the Four Lemmas Concerning the Conservation of Form
4. The Status of Sickness in the Ethics
CH 3: Chapter III: Extension and Conatus (Power and Causality)
1. The Power of Essence
2. From Finite Forms to the Infinite Form; The Status of Transformation
3. Self-Affirmation and Exteriority
4. The Union of Conatus
CH 4: Chapter IV: What is a Physics of Thought?
1. The Problem of the Status of the Infinite Idea
2. The Mirage of Splitting (The Relation between Essence and Existence)
3. The Thesis of the Real Identity of the Idea and Its Object, and Its Ambiguities
4. Lineaments of Cogitative Physics
5. Mental Transformations and a Hypothesis Concerning Amnesia
6. The Status of Sensation
7. The Unity of the Mind
CH 5: Chapter V: Speaking Spinozan
1. What 'Having' Means in Spinozan
2. Ideal Composition: Genetic Definition
3. Sketch of a Grammar of the Idea
4. In What Sense Common Notions Are Ideas
5. Once Again, Concerning Essences, and Concerning Readers Afflicted by Double Vision
CH 6: Chapter VI: Mental Transmutations, Eternity, and Death
1. In What Sense the Mind is Eternal (and, Once Again, In What Sense Common Notions are Ideas)
2. A Return to Two Sequences [Enchaînements], and the Case of Love
CH 7: Chapter VII: The Dream of Supernatural Transformations
1. The Logic of the Chimera
2. The Paradox of the Being of Non-Being
2.1. The Power of Impotence: Confusion
2.2. Imaging a Negation?
3. Dreaming with Open Eyes
3.1 Don Quixote and the Rabbis
3.2. Spells of Ignorance (The Banality of Hallucination)
3.3. The Confusion between Affections and Things, and the Dream of Free Will
Epilogue: Involving and Dying
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index
