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Spinoza'S Paradoxical Conservatism

Francois Zourabichvili Gil Morejon

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English
Edinburgh University Press
10 June 2025
Series: Spinoza Studies
Francois Zourabichvili wrote two major contributions to Spinoza scholarship. While Une physique de la pensee (PUF, 2002) concerns Spinoza's epistemology and metaphysics of ideas, Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism focuses on his political philosophy. Zourabichvili's interpretation of Spinoza's political philosophy is radically unlike the established tradition. In this book he explores Spinoza's philosophical theory of change across three different studies. First, within ethical transition, secondly within the image of the infant in Spinoza's work and third dealing with absolute monarchy which was dominant during Spinoza's time and provided his polemical writings with a concrete target. The book's challenging and carefully-argued claims will be of serious interest to anyone working in political theory, early modern philosophy or contemporary French thought.
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Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9781474489058
ISBN 10:   1474489052
Series:   Spinoza Studies
Pages:   312
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Francois Zourabichvili was a director at the College international de philosophie in Paris from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Spinoza: Une physique de la pensee (Presses Universitaires de Paris, 2002)

Reviews for Spinoza'S Paradoxical Conservatism

In his interrogation on ethical transition, Zourabichvili highlights how Spinozism is a philosophy of transformation - and how such a transformation implements, paradoxically, the sense of: ""to persevere in one's being"". It thus allows us to reflect on the ultimate political question: what is a free multitude?-- ""Pierre-François Moreau, L'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon"" This book, the chef-d'oeuvre of a young philosophical genius, who left us in the prime of his life, offers a systematic interpretation of Spinoza's ideas on monarchy and infancy, strangely associated, which by contrast reveal the tension between formation and death at the core of his ""political ontology"". It changed my understanding of Ethics and Theological-Political Treatise.-- ""Etienne Balibar, author of Spinoza, The Transindividual""


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