Spinoza''s Political Treatise - A Critical Guide

Brings scholarly attention to the least studied of Spinoza's major works, from a range of different scholarly perspectives.

List of contents

Introduction Yitzhak Y. Melamed and Hasana Sharp; 1. What is real about 'ideal constitutions'? - Spinoza on political explanation Michael A. Rosenthal; 2. Statesmen vs. philosophers: experience and method in Spinoza's Political Treatise Julie E. Cooper; 3. The condition of human nature: Spinoza's account of the ground of human action in the Tractatus Politicus Moira Gatens; 4. Politically mediated affects: envy in Spinoza's Tractatus Politicus Susan James; 5. Longing (desiderium) for vengeance as the foundation of the commonwealth Chantal Jacquet; 6. Family quarrels and mental harmony: Spinoza's Oikos-Polis analogy Hasana Sharp; 7. Spinoza on national religion Mogens Laerke; 8. Religion and the civil state in the Tractatus Politicus Daniel Garber; 9. Spinoza on aristocratic and democratic government Theo Verbek; 10. When is having too much power harmful? - Spinoza on political luck Yitzhak Y. Melamed; 11. Spinoza and political absolutism Justin Steinberg; 12. The revolutionary foundation of political modernity: Machiavelli, Spinoza, and constituent power Filippo Del Lucchese.

About the author

Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the coeditor of Spinoza's 'Theological-Political Treatise': A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2010), Spinoza and German Idealism (Cambridge, 2012), the editor of Spinoza's Ethics: A Critical Guide (Cambridge, 2017), and the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics: Substance and Thought (2013).Hasana Sharp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Montréal. She is author of Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (2011) and co-editor of Between Spinoza and Hegel (2012) and Feminist Philosophies of Life (2016).

Summary

Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book breaks new ground in the study of Spinoza's Political Treatise, the least studied of his major works. It will be a major resource for scholars who are interested in Spinoza's political philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY YITZHAK Y., Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Yitzhak Y. (The Johns Hopkins University) Melamed
• Assisted by: Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Editor), Yitzhak Y. (The Johns Hopkins University) Melamed (Editor), Melamed Yitzhak Y. (Editor), Hasana Sharp (Editor), Hasana (McGill University Sharp (Editor), Sharp Hasana (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107170582
• ISBN: 978-1-107-17058-2
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Cambridge Critical Guides; Cambridge Critical Guides
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Western philosophy: Enlightenment