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Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Re-reading the CanonPublication details: University Park, Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Press 2009Description: 239p 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780271035161
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • N71.1SB 22 G222
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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.
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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.

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