Affirmation and Resistance in Spinoza : : The Strategy of the Conatus / / Laurent Bove; ed. by Hasana Sharp, Émilie Filion-Donato, Émilie Filion-Donato.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Bove, Laurent,
• HerausgeberIn: Filion-Donato, Émilie,; Sharp, Hasana,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Spinoza Studies : SPST
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)

Offers a powerful and influential interpretation of Spinoza's conatusProvides a thorough overview of political theories, clarifying different philosophical traditions that are often obscured under the generic label of modernityDevelops an original analysis of Spinoza's philosophy, based on the concept of conatus, which has been largely neglected in Anglo-Saxon scholarshipBroadens access to the wealth of un-translated literature on SpinozaSpinozism 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.