Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism

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Infancy and Monarchy

Francois Zourabichvili(Autor*in)

Edinburgh University Press

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Erschienen am 22. März 2023

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Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Reference Conventions
Notes on Translation and Acknowledgements
The Problem of Transformation in Spinoza's Metaphysics according to Zourabichvili by Gil Morejón
Introduction
Memory and Form: The State and Its Ruin
Amnesia and Formation: The Birth of a State
The Adult Child and Chimeras
First Study: Involving Another Nature/Involving Nature
1. Ethical Transition in the Short Treatise
Proper Element and Foreign Element (KV II, 26)
A New Birth (KV II, 22)
The Ambivalence of 'Union'
2. Ethical Transition in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect
The Logic of Ethical Transition: Conversion and Dilemma
The Role of 'Striving'
The Concept of Institutum: The Logic of Convergence
Distraction, Possession: The Shadow of Transformation
'Homo concipiat naturam aliquam humanam sua multo firmiorem'
Appendices to the First Study
Second Study: The Rectified Image of Childhood
3. The Figure of the Infans Adultus
The Child of Scholasticism, and the Contradictions of the Renaissance
The Child of Painting and Medicine
The Child of the Jurists
The Parable of the First Man
Cartesian Voluntarism, Spinozist Voluntarism
4. Childhood and Philosophy
Infantile Impotence: Neither Privation nor Misery (scholia to Ethics V, 6 and 39)
Note on Gabriel Metsu's The Sick Child
The Childishness of Men
The Autonomisation of the Body
5. Childhood and Memory
The Amnesiac Regime of the Fascinated Infans
In What Sense Is the Body of the Child 'as it were in a state of equilibrium'?
Adolescence: Age of Reason or Final Avatar of the Infans Adultus?
What Is a Spinozist Pedagogy?
Concluding Remarks on the Relationship to Childhood
Third Study: The Power of God and the Power of Kings
6. The Confusion of the Two Powers and the Baroque Drift of Cartesianism
Refutation of the Power of Abstention
Refutation of the Power of the Alternative
Ethics I, 33, Its Demonstration and Second Scholium
The Baroque - or Its Banishment?
The Paradoxical Fate of Spinozism: Chimera against Chimera, and How the Relation to Polytheism Is Truly Established in Spinoza's Thought
7. The Transformist Dream of Absolute Monarchy
The Divinisation of Kings
Monarchical Absolutism and Metamorphosis
Royal Absolutism according to Spinoza: A Quintuple Chimera
First Chimera: Behind the King, the Favourites and the Court
Second Chimera: The Tyrannical Dream of Transforming Nature
Third Chimera: Changing Decrees (and the Theory of the King's Double Mind)
Fourth Chimera: The Death of the King and Succession (TP VII, 25)
Fifth Chimera: Return to Apotheosis, and Theocratic Truth
8. What Is a Free Multitude? War and Civilisation
The People that Does Not Fear Death (Praise for the Ancient Hebrews)
Combat and Freedom in the Political Treatise (VII, 22)
Pierre Macherey and François Zourabichvili on Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism
Works Cited
Index

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