Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

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Edinburgh University Press
09 April 2026

Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Human geography

Series: Geotheory

Harnessing the enigmatic and radical philosophy of Dutch rationalist Baruch Spinoza, this book examines and animates the occluded geography beating at the heart of his work. Essays attending to matters of space, nature, hope, aesthetics and politics recast the Dutch rationalist in geographical terms, spotlighting Spinoza's re-thinking and re-writing of earth and world. Advancing a renaissance in Spinozist scholarship, the book argues that Spinoza offers conceptual techniques to better apprehend and negotiate the affects and passions catalysing twenty-first century societal, environmental and political transformation. The stakes of a geographical Spinoza, for ethics, politics, ecology and thought itself, could not be higher.

By: Joe Gerlach
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399544634
ISBN 10: 1399544632
Series: Geotheory
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 09 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Acknowledgements List of Figures Note on the Text Writing Earths Otherwise: Spinoza’s Geography Chapter One: Cartography Chapter Two: Right Chapter Three: Hope Chapter Four: Chiaroscuro Chapter Five: Compact Coda: Under the aspect of geography References Notes Index

Joe Gerlach is Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at the University of Bristol. He is a cultural geographer whose research interests are centred conceptually on geophilosophy, micropolitics, posthuman ethics, and Spinoza. He is co-editor of Why Guattari? A Liberation of Politics, Cartographies and Ecologies (Routledge, 2021).

Reviews for Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

Razor-sharp and gleefully acerbic, Joe Gerlach delivers a brilliant and uncompromising corrective to a politics too often tethered to optimism and hope as ready-made responses to the crises that beset us. Spinoza’s Geographical Ethics truly frames a Spinoza for our time—one that reckons with the irreducible ambivalence of existence, warts and all. -- David Bissell, The University of Melbourne