Montag Warren - Spinoza And Politics - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: With Hobbes and Locke Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic Spinoza et la Politique Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza's major works admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza's major treatises in the period in which they were written. In successive chapters he examines the political situation in the United Provinces during Spinoza's lifetime Spinoza's own religious and ideological associations the concept of democracy developed in the Theologico - Political Treatise the theory of the state advanced in the Political Treatise and the anthropological basis for politics established in the Ethics.
Title: Spinoza And Politics
Author(s): Montag Warren
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781844672059
Pages: 160 Pages
Publication Date: 1/17/2008
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 03
Category: Political Science & Theory