What does it mean to think about, and with, Spinoza today? This
collection, the first broadly interdisciplinary volume dealing with
Spinozan thought, asserts the importance of Spinoza’s philosophy
of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates.
Engaging with Spinoza’s insistence on the centrality of the
passions as the site of the creative and productive forces shaping
society, this collection critiques the impulse to transcendence and
regimes of mastery, exposing universal values as illusory. Spinoza
Now pursues Spinoza’s challenge to abandon the temptation to
think through the prism of death in order to arrive at a truly
liberatory notion of freedom. In this bold endeavor, the essays
gathered here extend the Spinozan project beyond the disciplinary
boundaries of philosophy to encompass all forms of life-affirming
activity, including the arts and literature. The essays, taken
together, suggest that “Spinoza now” is not so much a statement
about a “truth” that Spinoza’s writings can reveal to us in
our present situation. It is, rather, the injunction to adhere to
the attitude that affirms both necessity and impossibility.
Contributors: Alain Badou, École Normale Supérieure; Mieke Bal,
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis; Cesare Casarino, U of
Minnesota; Justin Clemens, U of Melbourne; Simon Duffy, U of
Sydney; Sebastian Egenhofer, U of Basel; Alexander García
Düttmann, Goldsmiths, U of London; Arthur Jacobson, Yeshiva U; A.
Kiarina Kordela, Macalester College; Michael Mack, U of Nottingham;
Warren Montag, Occidental College; Antonio Negri; Christopher
Norris, U of Cardiff, Wales; Anthony Uhlmann, U of Western Sydney.
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