Feminist interpretations of Benedict Spinoza
By: edited by Moira Gatens.
Contributors: Gatens, Moira.
Series: Re-reading the canon
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: University Park, Pa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271035154; 9780271035161
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677; Feminist criticism
Description: "A collection of essays on the metaphysical, political, theological, ethical and psychological writings of Spinoza. Examines the ways in which his philosophy presents a resource for the re-conceptualization of friendship, sexuality, politics and ethics in contemporary life"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Through Spinoza's "looking glass" / Moira Gatens; title: Dominance and difference : a spinozistic alternative to the distinction between "sex" and "gender" / Genevieve Lloyd; title: Autonomy and the relational individual : Spinoza and feminism / Aurelia Armstrong; title: Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty; title: Spinoza and sexuality / Alexandre Matheron; title: Reason, sexuality, and the self in Spinoza / David West; title: What Spinoza can teach us about embodying and naturalizing ethics / Heidi Morrison Ravven; title: Adam and the serpent : everyman and the imagination / Paola Grassi; title: The envelope : a reading of Spinoza's ethics, "of God" / Luce Irigaray; title: Re-reading Irigaray's Spinoza / Sarah Donovan; title: The politics of the imagination / Moira Gatens; title: Law and sovereignty in Spinoza's politics / Susan James.