Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
Abbreviations......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
Imagination, freedom and responsibility......Page 18
Spinoza\'s imagination......Page 20
Imagination and bodies......Page 21
Spinoza\'s historical sources......Page 23
The letter to Balling: imagination and omens......Page 28
Imagination, emotion and sociability in the Ethics and the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus......Page 32
Imagination and time: hope, fear and contingency......Page 37
Illusions and fictions......Page 43
Spinoza\'s freedom......Page 50
Stoic images of freedom......Page 51
Freedom without the will......Page 57
Imagination, affect and time......Page 60
The social dimensions of freedom......Page 63
Re-imagining responsibility......Page 67
Spinoza\'s \'multitude\': Balibar on \'transindividuality\'......Page 74
Determination and negation: Spinoza and Hegel......Page 78
Spinozistic responsibility......Page 81
Communities, difference and the present past......Page 94
Theology, politics and norms......Page 96
The story of \'the first man\': law as command and law as knowledge......Page 104
Ethological bodies......Page 109
Power, politics and norms......Page 116
Freedom, authority and difference......Page 123
Freedom and authority in democratic polities......Page 124
Political fictions and the social imaginary......Page 129
The identity/difference dilemma......Page 135
Beyond the liberalism/communitarianism impasse......Page 141
Responsibility and the past......Page 145
Institutional inheritances and responsibility......Page 146
Conflicting imaginaries: terra nullius and Mabo......Page 149
Are \'we\' responsible for the past?......Page 152
Recognition, freedom and history......Page 155
Notes......Page 159
Bibliography......Page 164
Index......Page 169