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A translation of one of Zourabichvili's two major books on Spinoza
Includes a substantive Introduction that situates and contextualises Zourabichvili's book, while laying out the major themes of his analysis
Includes a discussion of the text by Pierre Macherey and a direct response to it by Zourabichvili, an exchange they had in 2004
Zourabichvili was a student of Deleuze and his work on him is already highly celebrated. This book will be of interest to readers of Deleuze as well as Spinoza scholars
Fran ois Zourabichvili wrote two major contributions to Spinoza scholarship. While Une physique de la pens e (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.
Contents
Reference Conventions
Notes on Translation and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Memory and Form: The State and its Ruin
Amnesia and Formation: The Birth of a State
The Adult Child and Chimeras
First Study. Involving Another Nature / Involving Nature
Ethical 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 Dilemma
The Role of 'Striving'
he Concept of Institutum: The Logic of Convergence
Distraction, Possession: The Shadow of Transformation
Homo concipiat naturam aliquam humanam sua multo firmiorem
Appendices to the First Study
Second Study. The Rectified Image of Childhood
The Figure of the Infans Adultus
The Child of Scholasticism, and the Contradictions of the Renaissance
The Child of Painting and Medicine
The Child of the Jurists
The Parable of the First Man
Cartesian 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 Child
The Childishness of Men
The Autonomisation of the Body
Childhood and Memory
The Amnesiac Regime of the Fascinated Infans
In 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 Childhood
Third Study. The Power of God and the Power of Kings
The Confusion of the Two Powers and the Baroque Drift of Cartesianism
Refutation of the Power of Abstention
Refutation of the Power of the Alternative
Ethics I, 33, its Demonstration, and its Second Scholium
The 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 Kings
Monarchical Absolutism and Metamorphosis
Royal Absolutism according to Spinoza: a Quintuple Chimera
First Chimera: Behind the King, the Favorites and the Court
Second Chimera: The Tyrannical Dream of Transforming Nature
Third 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 Conservatism
Works Cited
Index
