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Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought?In this intriguing book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us that in spite of or rather because of Spinoza's apparent strangeness, his philosophy can be a rich resource for cultural self-understanding in the present. Collective Imaginings draws on recent re-assessments of the philosophy of Spinoza to develop new ways of conceptualising issues of freedom and difference. This ground-breaking study will be invaluable reading to anyone wishing to gain a fresh perspective on Spinoza's thought.
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
 
PartⅠ
Imagination, freedom and responsibility
 
1. Spinoza’s imagination
Imagination and bodies
Spinoza’s historical sources
The letter to balling: imagination and omens
Imagination, emotion and sociability in the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus
Imagination and time: hope, fear and contingency
Illusions and fictions
 
2. Spinoza’s freedom
Stoic images of freedom
Freedom without the will
Imagination, affect and time
The social dimensions of freedom
 
3. Re-imagining responsibility
Providence, fate and fortune
Spinoza’s ‘multitute’: Balibar on ‘transindividuality’
Determination and negation: Spinoza and Hegel
Spinozistic responsibility
 
PARTⅡ
Communities, difference and the present past
 
4.Theology, politics and norms
Collective life and the theologico-political
The story of ‘the first man’: law as command and law as knowledge
Ethological bodies
power, politics and norms
 
5.Freedom, authority and difference
Freedom and authority in democratic polities
Political fictions and the social imaginary
The identity/difference dilemma
Beyond the liberalism/communitarianism impasse
 
6.Responsibility and the past
Institutional inheritances and responsibility
Conflicting imaginaries: terra nullius and Mabo
Are ‘we’ responsible for the past?
Recognition, freedom and history
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index