Spinoza and the Politics of Freedom

Combining careful historical and textual analysis with comparisons across past and present political theory, this book re—establishes Spinoza as a collectivist philosopher.
Taking as its starting point the formative role of fear in Spinoza’s thought, Dan Taylor argues that Spinoza’s vision of human freedom and power is realised socially and collectively. He offers a new critical study of the collectivist Spinoza, where we can become freer through desire, friendship, the imagination and trans...