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Spinoza's political psychology : the taming of fortune and fear / Justin Steinberg.

By: Steinberg, Justin (Associate Professor of Philosophy) [author.]Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource (xv, 235 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781316493465 (ebook)Subject(s): Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677 | Political psychology | Political science | PsychologyAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 199/.492 LOC classification: B3998 | .S7865 2018Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Spinoza's Political Psychology advances 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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Spinoza's Political Psychology advances 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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