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Beschreibung
With the rise of populist governments and corresponding popular protests, this book turns renewed focus on Baruch Spinoza's idea of the political multitude.Acting at once as a body with a single mind and a state with its own political-institutional structure, the multitude mirrors some of the central actors in democratic movements across early 20th-century Europe - from Occupy Wall Street to Indignados and Nuit Debout.

Gonzalo Cernadas draws from two of Spinoza's key works on this subject in his Political Treatiseand Theological-Political Treatise, setting out the progress of his ideas: how Spinoza conceives of the body, how that body can become part of the multitude, and how that multitude can form a political society. In recovering Spinoza's relevance to contemporary political phenomena, Cernadas explains why this early modern thinker has found renewed importance three hundred and fifty years after his death, and ultimately how he could even prompt us to reassess democracy as the best form of government.
With the rise of populist governments and corresponding popular protests, this book turns renewed focus on Baruch Spinoza's idea of the political multitude.Acting at once as a body with a single mind and a state with its own political-institutional structure, the multitude mirrors some of the central actors in democratic movements across early 20th-century Europe - from Occupy Wall Street to Indignados and Nuit Debout.

Gonzalo Cernadas draws from two of Spinoza's key works on this subject in his Political Treatiseand Theological-Political Treatise, setting out the progress of his ideas: how Spinoza conceives of the body, how that body can become part of the multitude, and how that multitude can form a political society. In recovering Spinoza's relevance to contemporary political phenomena, Cernadas explains why this early modern thinker has found renewed importance three hundred and fifty years after his death, and ultimately how he could even prompt us to reassess democracy as the best form of government.
Über den Autor
Gonzalo Ricci Cernadas is a postdoctoral fellow of CONICET at the Gino Germani Research Institute, and Professor of Philosophy and Modern Political Theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He holds a degree in Political Science from the University of Buenos Aires, a specialization in Political Studies, a Master's degree in Political and Social Theory and a PhD in Social Sciences from the same university. His area of work refers mainly to Baruch Spinoza and the republican dimension that can be found in his philosophy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Part I: The Body
1. Physics in Descartes' "Principles of Philosophy"
2. Physics in Ethics
Part II: The Multitude
3. From Physics to Affects
4. The Multitude in the Theological-Political Treatise
5. The Multitude in the Political Treatise
Part III: Excursus
6. The Conceptual Origin of the Multitude
7. The Conceptual Futures of the Multitude
Part IV: The State
8. Power as potentia and potestas
9. The Constitution of Democracy as imperium absolutum
10. The Place of Institutions
Conclusion: The Various Faces of the Multitude and the State

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Philosophie
Jahrhundert: Antike
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781350437708
ISBN-10: 1350437700
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Cernadas, Gonzalo Ricci
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Academic
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Gonzalo Ricci Cernadas
Erscheinungsdatum: 23.07.2026
Gewicht: 0,259 kg
Artikel-ID: 135955915

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