Spinoza’s concepts of wonder, the imitation of affects, cheerfulness, and devotion provide the basis for a Spinozist aesthetics. Those concepts from his Ethics, when combined with his account of rituals and festivals in the Theological-Political Treatise and his Political Treatise, reveal an aesthetics of social affects. The repetition of ritualised participatory aesthetic practices over time generates a unique ingenium or way of life for a social group, a singular style which distinguishes them from the general political body. Ritual and the imitation of affects explain why specific styles of art are associated with consistent styles of bodily modifications, cl...
This article forms a critical reflection on the views of Spinoza, developed in the Tractatus Theolog...
Spinoza's philosophy is often celebrated for its strong anti-normative current. Spinoza argues, for ...
The second (February 2023) draft for the forthcoming Spinoza Cambridge Lexicon. Please do not quote,...
Spinoza’s concepts of wonder, the imitation of affects, cheerfulness, and devotion provide...
Spinoza rarely refers to art. However, there are extensive resources for a Spinozist aesthetics in h...
This paper identifies an aesthetics implicit in Spinoza’s philosophy through the concept of a genesi...
This paper forms part of a larger project which seeks to derive a theory of art from a close reading...
There is interest in Spinoza in a range of disciplines with a focus on embodiment, agency and affect...
El presente artículo intentará atravesar una pequeña parte de la cartografía afectiva spinozista. No...
“I shall consider the actions and emotions of man precisely as if I were studying the nature of line...
Spinoza recognizes that worldly pleasures are not contrary to the life of the philosophical sage, bu...
In this paper, I wish to use a Spinozist framework to pursue a particular understanding of musical p...
<p>Affects are not reducible to feelings or emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before </p><p>Spinoza...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...
The theme of the conflict between the different interpretations of Spinoza’s philosophy in French sc...
This article forms a critical reflection on the views of Spinoza, developed in the Tractatus Theolog...
Spinoza's philosophy is often celebrated for its strong anti-normative current. Spinoza argues, for ...
The second (February 2023) draft for the forthcoming Spinoza Cambridge Lexicon. Please do not quote,...
Spinoza’s concepts of wonder, the imitation of affects, cheerfulness, and devotion provide...
Spinoza rarely refers to art. However, there are extensive resources for a Spinozist aesthetics in h...
This paper identifies an aesthetics implicit in Spinoza’s philosophy through the concept of a genesi...
This paper forms part of a larger project which seeks to derive a theory of art from a close reading...
There is interest in Spinoza in a range of disciplines with a focus on embodiment, agency and affect...
El presente artículo intentará atravesar una pequeña parte de la cartografía afectiva spinozista. No...
“I shall consider the actions and emotions of man precisely as if I were studying the nature of line...
Spinoza recognizes that worldly pleasures are not contrary to the life of the philosophical sage, bu...
In this paper, I wish to use a Spinozist framework to pursue a particular understanding of musical p...
<p>Affects are not reducible to feelings or emotions. On the contrary, Affect Before </p><p>Spinoza...
This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spin...
The theme of the conflict between the different interpretations of Spinoza’s philosophy in French sc...
This article forms a critical reflection on the views of Spinoza, developed in the Tractatus Theolog...
Spinoza's philosophy is often celebrated for its strong anti-normative current. Spinoza argues, for ...
The second (February 2023) draft for the forthcoming Spinoza Cambridge Lexicon. Please do not quote,...