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Affirmation and Resistance in Spinoza: The Strategy of the Conatus

Affirmation and Resistance in Spinoza: The Strategy of the Conatus

Paperback

Series: Spinoza Studies

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1474430589
ISBN13: 9781474430586
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Offers a powerful and influential interpretation of Spinoza's conatus - the essential striving that defines each of us - as fundamentally strategic.
Spinozism must be understood as a dynamic ontology that necessarily unfolds on practical terrain. Laurent Bove analyses Spinoza's theory of affects as rooted in Habit, generating the constituent power of human beings, commonwealths, nations and multitudes. By interpreting sovereignty as a power that emerges through the active resistance of the always singular body of the multitude, Bove discovers in Spinoza a radically new approach to the State, to citizenship and to history.

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