A01=Riccardo Caporali
Author_Riccardo Caporali
Baruch Spinoza
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ethics
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
metaphysics
modern political philosophy
Niccolo Machiavelli
Rene Descartes
theology
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- ISBN 9781474467605
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jul 2023
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Examines the close and circular connection between metaphysics, ethics and politics in Spinoza's thought
Shows the entire system of Spinoza's philosophy to revolve around an ethical political challenge, dictated by historical circumstances
Offers a different perspective from recent philosophical-political interpretations of Spinoza
Provides the first systematic study of the metaphysic roots behind Spinoza's strongest political statements
Weaves in comparisons and references to Machiavelli, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, Vico and Hegel, and to many contemporary interpretations of Spinoza's thought
Riccardo Caporali examines of all of Spinoza's works while addressing the challenges imposed by the historical circumstances at the time. As a result, Spinoza's work and its author the philosopher and the man go hand in hand.
Focusing on Spinoza's constant preoccupation with the relationship between metaphysics and politics, Caporali shows that it takes different forms in his various major works. He highlights specific moments of this discontinuity, particularly in the transition between the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus and the Tractatus Politicus.
Riccardo Caporali is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy. He is the author of Il netto e il sospetto: a proposito di Machiavelli (Cesena, 2014), La pazienza degli esclusi. Studi su Spinoza (Mimesis, 2012), Uguaglianza (il Mulino, 2012), La tenerezza e la barbarie. Studi su Vico (Liguori, 2006), La fabbrica dell’imperium. Saggio su Spinoza (Liguori, 2000) and Heroes gentium. Sapienza e politica in Vico (il Mulino, 1992). This is his first book to be translated into English. Fabio Gironi is an independent researcher. He is the author of Analytic and Continental Kantianism: The Legacy of Kant in Sellars and Meillassoux (Routledge, 2017) and Naturalizing Badiou: Mathematical Ontology and Structural Realism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). He is the translator of Becoming Animal: Philosophy of Animality After Deleuze by Felice Cimatti (EUP, 2020).
