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In this intriguing book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us
that in spite of-or rather because of-Spinoza's apparent
strangeness, his philosophy can be a rich source for cultural
self-understanding in the present. "Collective Imaginings" draws on
recent reassessments of the philosophy of Spinoza and develops new
ways of conceptualizing issues of freedom and difference. These
newly contextualized theories are easily applied to contemporary
issues, such as environmental debates, issues of feminism, the
conception of democracy, and the idea of the individual and
community, providing relevance to our everyday lives.
"Being in Time" is a provocative and accessible essay on the
fragmentation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature.
This original study is unique in its focus on the literary aspects
of philosophical writing and their interactions with philosophical
content. It explores the emotional aspects of the human experience
of time commonly neglected in philosophical investigation by
looking at how narrative creates and treats the experience of the
self as fragmented and the past as "lost." Genevieve Lloyd
demonstrates the continuities and the contrasts between modern
philosophic discussions of the instability of the knowing subject,
treatments of the fragmentation of the self in the modern novel,
and older philosophical discussions of the unity of consciousness.
This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.
This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.
This volume is intended for students coming to Spinoza for the first time. This book provides an overview of critical interpretations, relating the Ethics to its intellectual context, considers its historical reception, and highlights why the book continues to be relevant today. In addition, the final sections of the Ethics, usually ignored in introductory commentaries, are given attention and illuminated as the climax of the work. "Spinoza and the Ethics" is an updated and accessible introduction for students to Spinoza's most important text.
A philosophical exploration of wonder: its history, its present condition and its future potentialGenevieve Lloyd illuminates and challenges some perplexing aspects of contemporary attitudes to wonder. Central to her argument is the claim that wonder has come to be largely eclipsed by the allure of the notion of the Sublime a concept closely associated with Romantic Idealism.Lloyd offers us a renewed sense of wonder, reconnected with its philosophical history, that plays a significant role in contemporary social critique. In her path to reclaim wonder, she moves between philosophical and literary sources. She draws especially on Flaubert's responses to Romanticism and his related treatment of stupidity, which influenced the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. She also reaches into contemporary debates on refugees, secularisation and climate change.
To the ancient Greeks, providence was the inherent purpose and rational structure of the world. In Christian thought, it became a benign will "providing" for human well-being. And in our own ever more secular times--is providence lost? Perhaps, but as Genevieve Lloyd makes clear in this illuminating work, providence still exerts a powerful influence on our thought and in our lives; and understanding how can help us clarify the functioning--or, increasingly, disfunctioning--of concepts of freedom and autonomy that define our modernity. Such an understanding is precisely the goal of this book, which traces a succession of transformations in the concept of providence through the history of Western philosophy. Beginning with early versions of providence in ancient Greek thought, Lloyd follows the concept through its convergence with Christian ideas, to its role in seventeenth-century philosophical accommodations of freedom and necessity. Finally, she shows how providence was subsumed into the eighteenth-century ideas of progress that eventually rendered it philosophically superfluous. Incorporating rich discussions of thinkers from Euripides to Augustine, Descartes and Spinoza to Kant and Hegel, her lucid and elegantly written work clearly and forcefully brings the history of ideas to bear on our present confusion over notions of autonomy, risk, and responsibility. Exploring the interplay among philosophy, religion, and literature, and among intellect, imagination, and emotion in philosophical thought, this book allows intellectual historians and general readers alike to grasp what it actually means that providence can be lost but not escaped.
Through a curated selection of papers written over four decades by one of Australia's leading philosophers, this collection demonstrates the impact of Continental philosophy on philosophical thought in Australia. The development of specific philosophical problems, over a period of more than forty years by a philosopher whose first training was 'pre-continental', shows that it is possible to achieve interaction between 'continental' and 'pre-continental' methods in philosophy, even while recognizing their distinctiveness. These essays 'work towards' continental philosophy in the ways they pay attention to language, to how we experience things and are experienced by others, and to the structures of language and power that frame what it is possible to say and to hear, to write and to read.
This edited collection of essays explores the ways in which we can interpret past philosophical texts from a feminist perspective. Drawn together within a chronological framework, pieces by leading feminist critics, such as Luce Irigaray and Martha Nussbaum, reveal the fresh perspectives that feminism can offer to the discussion of past philosophers.
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