Conflict Power And Multitude In Machiavelli And Spinoza

Author : Filippo Del Lucchese
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441153791

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Conflict, Power, and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza by Filippo Del Lucchese Pdf

Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza explores Spinoza's political philosophy by confronting it with that of Niccolò Machiavelli. Filippo Del Lucchese conducts a study of the relationship between Machiavelli and Spinoza from a perspective at once philosophical, historical and political. The book begins by showing how closely tied the two thinkers are in relation to realism. Del Lucchese then goes on to examine the theme of conflict as a crucial element of an understanding of Machiavelli and Spinoza's conceptions of modernity. The book concludes with an examination of the concept of 'multiplicity' and 'plural' expressions of politics, namely Machiavelli's popolo and Spinoza's multitudo. Overall, the Machiavelli-Spinoza axis offers a fruitful perspective through which to analyse the relationship between contending ideas of modernity from a historical point of view, and provides an original point of departure for discussing some key theoretical, political and juridical notions that have resurfaced in contemporary debates.

Author : Filippo Del Lucchese
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474404297

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Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli by Filippo Del Lucchese Pdf

The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli is a clear account of Machiavelli's thought, major theories and central ideas. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Machiavelli's ideas, it is the ideal companion to the study of this influential and challenging philosopher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political science
ISBN : 1474404308

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Political Philosophy of Niccolò Machiavelli by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Johnston,Nadia Urbinati,Camila Vergara (Political scientist)
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226429304

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Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict by David Johnston,Nadia Urbinati,Camila Vergara (Political scientist) Pdf

Papers from a conference held 6-7 December 2013 at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University to mark the five-hundredth anniversary of the publication of The Prince.

Author : Gabriele Pedullà
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107177277

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Machiavelli in Tumult by Gabriele Pedullà Pdf

Reconstructs the origins of the idea that social conflict, and not concord, makes political communities powerful.

Author : Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781474476072

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Spinoza, the Epicurean by Dimitris Vardoulakis Pdf

By radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism.

Author : A. Kiarina Kordela,Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350011045

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Spinoza's Authority Volume II by A. Kiarina Kordela,Dimitris Vardoulakis Pdf

Spinoza's political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. Spinoza's Authority Volume II makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of Spinoza's 1670s Theologico-Political and Political treatises. By taking the concept of authority as an original framework, this books asks: How is authority related to law, memory, and conflict in Spinoza's political thought? What are the social, historical and representational processes that produce authority and resistance? And what are the conditions of effective resistance? Spinoza's Authority Volume II features a roster of internationally established theorists of Spinoza's work, and covers key elements of Spinoza's political philosophy.

Author : A. Kiarina Kordela,Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472593221

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Spinoza’s Authority Volume I by A. Kiarina Kordela,Dimitris Vardoulakis Pdf

Spinoza's political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. Spinoza's Authority Volume I: Resistance and Power in Ethics makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of Spinoza's political thought by focusing on his posthumously published Ethics. By taking the concept of authority as an original framework, this books asks: How is authority related to ethics, ontology, and epistemology? What are the social, historical and representational processes that produce authority and resistance? And what are the conditions of effective resistance? Spinoza's Authority features a roster of internationally established theorists of Spinoza's work, and covers key elements of Spinoza's political philosophy, including: questions of authority, the resistance to authority, sovereign power, democratic control, and the role of Spinoza's "multitudes".

Author : Christopher Holma
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781487503932

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Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation by Christopher Holma Pdf

Presenting a detailed reinterpretation and reconstruction of the political thought of Niccolò Machiavelli, Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation uses original readings of Machiavelli's texts to develop a new theoretical model of democratic practice. The book critically and creatively juxtaposes certain concepts drawn from Machiavelli's work in order to produce new political insights. Christopher Holman identifies two unique ideas in Machiavelli through his rearrangement of Machiavellian concepts. The first, drawn primarily from The Prince, is an image of the individual human being as a creative subject that seeks the exteriorization of desire via political creation. The second, drawn primarily from The Discourses on Livy, is an image of the democratic republic as a form of regime in which this desire for creative self-expression is universalized, all citizens being able to affirm their psychic orientation toward innovation through their equal access to political institutions and orders. Such institutions and orders, to the extent that they function as media for the expression of a fundamental human creativity, must be arranged so that they are capable of continual interrogation and refinement. In the final instance, a new ethical ground for the normative defense of democratic life is constructed, one grounded in the orientation of individual beings toward novelty and innovation.

Author : Sandra Leonie Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197528242

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Potentia by Sandra Leonie Field Pdf

"This book offers a detailed study of the political philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Benedict de Spinoza, focussing on their concept of power as potentia, concrete power, rather than power as potestas, authorised power. The focus on power as potentia generates a new conception of popular power. Radical democrats-whether drawing on Hobbes's 'sleeping sovereign' or on Spinoza's 'multitude'-understand popular power as something that transcends ordinary institutional politics, as for instance popular plebsites or mass movements. However, the book argues that these understandings reflect a residual scholasticism which Hobbes and Spinoza ultimately repudiate. Instead, on the book's revisionist conception, a political phenomenon should be said to express popular power when it is both popular (it eliminates oligarchy and encompasses the whole polity), and also powerful (it robustly determines political and social outcomes). Two possible institutional forms that this popular power might take are distinguished: Hobbesian repressive egalitarianism, or Spinozist civic strengthening. But despite divergent institutional proposals, the book argues that both Hobbes and Spinoza share the conviction that there is nothing spontaneously egalitarian or good about human collective existence. From this point of view, the book accuses radical democrats of pernicious romanticism; the slow, meticulous work of organizational design and maintenance is the true centre of popular power"--

Author : Justin Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107141308

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Spinoza's Political Psychology by Justin Steinberg Pdf

A comprehensive and novel interpretation of Spinoza's political writings that reveals the significance of the affects for political life.

Author : Yves Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426701

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Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence by Yves Winter Pdf

Niccol- Machiavelli is the most prominent and notorious theorist of violence in the history of European political thought - prominent, because he is the first to candidly discuss the role of violence in politics; and notorious, because he treats violence as virtue rather than as vice. In this original interpretation, Yves Winter reconstructs Machiavelli's theory of violence and shows how it challenges moral and metaphysical ideas. Winter attributes two central theses to Machiavelli: first, violence is not a generic technology of government but a strategy that tends to correlate with inequality and class conflict; and second, violence is best understood not in terms of conventional notions of law enforcement, coercion, or the proverbial 'last resort', but as performance. Most political violence is effective not because it physically compels another agent who is thus coerced; rather, it produces political effects by appealing to an audience. As such, this book shows how in Machiavelli's world, violence is designed to be perceived, experienced, remembered, and narrated.

Author : Bernardo Bianchi,Emilie Filion-Donato,Marlon Miguel,Ayşe Yuva
Publisher : ICI Berlin Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783965580183

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Materialism and Politics by Bernardo Bianchi,Emilie Filion-Donato,Marlon Miguel,Ayşe Yuva Pdf

What remains of materialism’s subversive potential — i.e., its ties with heresy or atheism and republicanism or communism — and to what extent does this concept still interpellate us politically and philosophically? As neoliberal policies expanded far beyond the state, their mechanisms of control seeped into the materiality of social reproduction, solidifying a conception of matter as something inert, to be appropriated, manipulated, and exploited. If in this context the subversive nature of a reference to materiality is called into question, it has also provoked new forms of resistance, as well as fundamental reconsiderations of the political implications of the notion of ‘matter’. Against this background, the aim of this book is to show the diversity within continued engagements with materialism as a central concept for progressive politics, be it in the direction opened up by New Materialism, in renewed forms of Marxist and Spinozist based approaches, or in feminist analyses, each in their own terms, without excluding the possibility of alliances between them. Finally, this volume insists that the study of materiality and materialist approaches does not amount to a renunciation of philosophy, but rather urges us to broaden the task of philosophical thought in order to reconsider the historical and, in every sense of the word, material situatedness of all philosophical problems. Against a reductive and ahistorical conception of materialism — the straightest way back to ideology —, this book offers an analysis of its diverse emancipatory potentialities.

Author : Christopher Skeaff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226555508

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Becoming Political by Christopher Skeaff Pdf

In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza’s thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, Becoming Political offers a historically sensitive, meticulous, and creative interpretation of Spinoza’s texts that reveals judgment as the communal element by which people generate power to resist domination and reconfigure the terms of their political association. If, for Spinoza, judging is the activity which makes a people powerful, it is because it enables them to contest the project of ruling and demonstrate the political possibility of being equally free to articulate the terms of their association. This proposition differs from a predominant contemporary line of argument that treats the people’s judgment as a vehicle of sovereignty—a means of defining and refining the common will. By recuperating in Spinoza’s thought a “vital republicanism,” Skeaff illuminates a line of political thinking that decouples democracy from the majoritarian aspiration to rule and aligns it instead with the project of becoming free and equal judges of common affairs. As such, this decoupling raises questions that ordinarily go unasked: what calls for political judgment, and who is to judge? In Spinoza’s vital republicanism, the political potential of life and law finds an affirmative relationship that signals the way toward a new constitutionalism and jurisprudence of the common.

Author : Andre Santos Campos
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781845408893

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Spinoza by Andre Santos Campos Pdf

Spinoza is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. He has had a deep and enduring influence on a wide range of philosophical subjects, and his work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy. His Ethics is one of the seminal works of metaphysical, moral, religious and political thought; his Theological-Political Treatise inaugurated a novel method of biblical exegesis; and both his political works developed the pre-eminence of democracy above all other regimes. Nevertheless, the significance of Spinoza's philosophy is matched by its complexity. His system presents a considerable challenge for the modern student; his language is frequently opaque, while the esoteric themes explored in his work often require elucidation. Spinoza: Basic Concepts intends to overcome most of such difficulties. Each essay in this collection explores a key concept involved in Spinoza’s thinking, relating it to his understanding of philosophy, outlining the arguments and explaining the implications of each concept. Together, the chapters cover the full range of Spinoza's interdisciplinary system of philosophy.