Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and FearCambridge University Press, 2018 - 235 pagina's Spinoza's Political Psychology advances a novel, comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political method resembles the Renaissance civic humanism in its view of governance as an adaptive craft that requires psychological attunement. He examines the ways that Spinoza deploys this realist method in the service of empowerment, suggesting that the state can affectively reorient and thereby liberate its citizens, but only if it attends to their actual motivational and epistemic capacities. His book will interest a range of readers in Spinoza studies and the history of political thought, as well as readers working in contemporary political theory. |
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Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear Justin Steinberg Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2018 |
Spinoza's Political Psychology: The Taming of Fortune and Fear Justin Steinberg Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2020 |
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absolute according action adequate ideas affects aims authority Balibar body Carneades Chapter citizens Cive civic civil cognitive common Commonwealth conatus conceive conception constituted constrained democracy democratic depends Descartes desire determinate distinction divine law Don Garrett Dutch Republic Edwin Curley epistemic eternal Ethics Étienne Balibar evaluative judgments evil existence extent fear formal essence fortune freedom Garrett God’s governance Grotius Hobbes Hobbes’s hope hope and fear imagination ingenia ingenium insofar institutions intellect interpretation Jon Miller Kisner knowledge liberty live Machiavelli Matheron metaphysical mind moral motivation natural law Noreña normative obedience obligation one’s nature one’s power one’s striving particular passions peace philosophy political treatises power of acting promote psychology rational realism reason religion Republic rhetorical Richard Tuck Scripture Section securitas sense singular things sovereign Spinoza claims Spinoza thinks Spinoza’s account Spinoza’s political Steinberg sui iuris superstition Tercets theory tion understand virtue