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xii, 176 pages ; 24 cm In this pathbreaking work, Christopher Skeaff argues that a profoundly democratic conception of judgment is at the heart of Spinoza?s thought. Bridging Continental and Anglo-American scholarship, critical theory, and Spinoza studies, Becoming Political offers a historically sensitive, meticulous, and creative interpretation of Spinoza?s texts that reveals judgment as the communal element by which people generate power to resist domination and reconfigure the terms of their political association. If, for Spinoza, judging is the activity which makes a people powerful, it is because it enables them to contest the project of ruling and demonstrate the political possibility of being equally free to articulate the terms of their association. This proposition differs from a predominant contemporary line of argument that treats the people?s judgment as a vehicle of sovereignty - a means of defining and refining the common will. By recuperating in Spinoza?s thought a ?vital republicanism,? Skeaff illuminates a line of political thinking that decouples democracy from the majoritarian aspiration to rule and aligns it instead with the project of becoming free and equal j

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Author

Christopher Skeaff; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226555508

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Philosophy, Humanities