Spinoza's Political Psychology
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Spinoza's Political Psychology

The Taming of Fortune and Fear

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Spinoza's Political Psychology

The Taming of Fortune and Fear

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Spinoza's Political Psychologyadvances a novel, comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political method resembles the Renaissance civic humanism in its view of governance as an adaptive craft that requires psychological attunement. He examines the ways that Spinoza deploys this realist method in the service of empowerment, suggesting that the state can affectively reorient and thereby liberate its citizens, but only if it attends to their actual motivational and epistemic capacities. His book will interest a range of readers in Spinoza studies and the history of political thought, as well as readers working in contemporary political theory.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781108693400
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title page
  4. Imprints page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures and Tables
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Note on Primary Sources and Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. 1 Metaphysical Psychology and Ingenia Formation
  12. 2 Eliminating Juridical Constraints and Naturalizing Right
  13. 3 The Continuity Thesis and the Aim of Government
  14. 4 The Politics of Hope and Fear
  15. 5 Statecraft and the Taming of Fortune
  16. 6 From Superstition and Persecution to True Religion and Toleration
  17. 7 The Affective and Epistemic Cases for Democracy
  18. 8 Salvation, Eternity, and the State
  19. References
  20. Index