Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza
Gatens, Moira
Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza - University Park, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press 2009 - 239p 23 cm. - Re-reading the Canon .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens -- Dominance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd -- Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron -- Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West -- What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven -- Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi -- The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray -- Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan -- The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens -- Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.
"A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in which his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life"--Provided by publisher.
9780271035161
2008045147
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Feminist criticism.
N71.1SB / G222
Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza - University Park, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press 2009 - 239p 23 cm. - Re-reading the Canon .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens -- Dominance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd -- Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron -- Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West -- What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven -- Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi -- The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray -- Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan -- The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens -- Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.
"A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in which his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life"--Provided by publisher.
9780271035161
2008045147
Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Feminist criticism.
N71.1SB / G222