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Baruch Spinoza
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Daniel Defoe
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George Eliot
Jonathan Swift
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Mary Shelley
Percy Shelley
Virginia Woolf
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- ISBN 9781399570213
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Against the mainstream view, Gatens and Uhlmann argue that Spinoza’s philosophy can significantly contribute to understandings of art, creativity and the central place of the imagination in human wellbeing. This perspective shows how concepts essential to Spinoza’s philosophy, such as ingenium, the exemplar and the theory of the affects illuminate how works of art and literature make essential contributions to human thriving. They consider case studies of major English authors who were negatively or positively influenced by Spinoza, including Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Percy and Mary Shelley, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.
Moira Gatens is Emerita Professor of Philosophy, University of Sydney. Her interests include early modern philosophy, philosophy and literature, and feminist theory. She is the author of Imaginary Bodies: Ethics, Power and Corporeality (Routledge, 2021), Spinoza's Hard Path to Freedom (Royal Van Gorcum, 2011) and Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present (Routledge, 1999). She is co-editor of Institutional Transformations: Imagination, Embodiment and Affect (Routledge, 2021), Feminist Interpretations of Benedict Spinoza (Penn State University Press, 2009). She is co-author of Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present (Routledge, 1999), The Oxford Companion to Australian Feminism (OUP, 1998), Feminist Ethics (Ashgate, 1998), Gender and Institutions: Welfare, Work and Citizenship (Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Feminism and Philosophy: Perspectives on Difference and Equality (Polity Press, 1991). Anthony Uhlmann is Distinguished Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, Australia. He is the author of Beckett and Poststructuralism (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Samuel Beckett and the Philosophical Image (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Thinking in Literature: Joyce, Woolf, Nabokov (Bloomsbury, 2011), J. M. Coetzee, Truth, Meaning, Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2020). He was the Managing Editor of the Journal of Beckett Studies (Edinburgh University Press). He has translated a number of essays from French into English, including, The Exhausted by Gilles Deleuze.
