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Book SynopsisWhat did Spinoza ever do for us? This vtitle shows how Spinoza's theory of bodies transforms our understanding of music, and how it grounds 'collective subjectivity' in contemporary politics.It deals with Spinoza's connection to literature, politics, the environment and beyond.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Beth Lord; 1. 'Subjectivity Without the Subject': Thinking Beyond the; Subject with / through Spinoza; Caroline Williams; 2. Spinoza's Non Humanist Humanism; Michael Mack; 3. The Ethical Relation of Bodies: Thinking with Spinoza; Towards an Affective Ecology; Anthony Paul Smith; 4. Spinoza's Architectural Passages and Geometric; Comportments; Peg Rawes; 5. The Secret History of Musical Spinozism; Amy Cimini; Interlude: Lance Brewer, Christina Rawls, Shelley Campbell; 6. Thinking the Future: Spinoza's Political Ontology Today; Mateusz Janik; 7. Spinoza's Empty Law: The Possibility of Political Theology; Dimitris Vardoulakis; 8. Which Radical Enlightenment? Spinoza, Jacobinism and; Black Jacobinism; Nick Nesbitt; 9. George Eliot, Spinoza and the Ethics of Literature; Simon Calder; 10. Coleridge's Ecumenical Spinoza; Nicholas Halmi; Notes on Contributors; Index.
