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Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza

Author: Moira Gatens
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Series: Re-reading the canon.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in which his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life"--Provided by publisher.
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Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009
(OCoLC)622853739
Named Person: Benedictus de Spinoza; Benedictus de Spinoza
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Moira Gatens
ISBN: 9780271035154 0271035153 9780271035161 0271035161
OCLC Number: 265733318
Description: xiv, 239 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens --
Dominance and difference : a Spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd --
Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong --
Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty --
Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron --
Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West --
What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven --
Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi --
The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray --
Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan --
The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens --
Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.
Series Title: Re-reading the canon.
Responsibility: edited by Moira Gatens.

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"A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in which his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life"--Provided by publisher.

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