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Affectivity and Philosophy after Spinoza and Nietzsche : Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect
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Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that ...
Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims that the two philosophers share the common goal of making knowledge the most powerful affect.
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- by Stuart Pethick
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- English
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- 1st ed. 2015
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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- 1 online resource (265 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781137486066, 1137486066, 1349553077, 1137486058
- Description based upon print version of record.
- English
- Cover ; Half-Title ; Title ; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Note on Referencing ; Introduction ; 1 Spinoza: Discovering What the Body Can Do ; 1.1 Descartes' cogito and the power of ideas ; 1.2 Spinoza and the affective-imagination ; 1.3 Affectivity: a vacillation of joy and sadness
- 1.4 The body as duration 1.5 Euphoric and dysphoric bodies ; 1.6 Adequacy of ideas ; 1.7 The signs of the affective-imagination ; 1.8 From general to common notions ; 1.9 Conatus: 'how' things are, not 'what' things are ; 2 Nietzsche and the Sign Language of the Affects
- 2.1 Interpreting the sign-language of the affects 2.2 Neither substance nor subject ; 2.3 Will as affect ; 2.4 Consciousness and other perspectives ; 2.5 Evoking the multiplicity of the body ; 2.6 Consciousness as communication ; 2.7 Affect as interpretation
- 2.8 Consciousness and responsibility 2.9 Memory, consciousness and morality ; 3 Will-to-Power: Redeeming the Body from the Ascetic Ideal ; 3.1 Philosophy as the negation of the perspectival ; 3.2 The joy and sadness of Plato's idealism ; 3.3 The eternal return of the 'Something'
- 3.4 Amor Fati: life after the eternal return 3.5 Redemption from salvation ; 3.6 Wille zur Macht: philosophy as redemption ; 4 Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect ; 4.1 Redeeming the past ; 4.1.1 Descartes and philosophy's graphophobia
- 4.1.2 Spinoza: interpretation as redeeming expression