Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction: The Politics of Renaturalization......Page 14
A Practical Wisdom of Renaturalization......Page 18
Impersonal Politics......Page 23
Ingredients......Page 28
Part I: Reconfiguring the Human......Page 32
1. Lines, Planes, and Bodies: Redefi ning Human Action......Page 34
Action as Affect......Page 38
The Transindividuality of Affect: Spinoza and Simondon......Page 47
The Tongue......Page 55
2. Renaturalizing Ideology: Spinoza’s Ecosystem of Ideas......Page 68
The Matrix......Page 71
Ideology Critique Today?......Page 74
The Fly in the Coach......Page 77
“I am in Ideology,” or The Attribute of Thought......Page 81
What Is to Be Done?......Page 88
3. Man’s Utility to Man: Reason and Its Place in Nature......Page 98
The Politics of Human Nature......Page 100
Reason and the Human Essence......Page 106
Man’s Utility to Man......Page 113
Nonhuman Utility......Page 120
Part II: Beyond the Image of Man......Page 128
4. Desire for Recognition? Butler, Hegel, and Spinoza......Page 130
Spinoza in Hegel......Page 134
Desire in Hegel......Page 137
Conatus and Cupiditas in Spinoza......Page 145
From Interpersonal Recognition to Impersonal Glory......Page 152
Judith Butler’s Post-Hegelian Politics of Recognition......Page 162
5. The Impersonal Is Political: Spinoza and a Feminist Politics of Imperceptibility......Page 168
The Politics of Recognition......Page 172
Elizabeth Grosz’s Critique of the Politics of Recognition......Page 176
Thinking beyond the (Hu)Man......Page 182
A Politics of Imperceptibility......Page 188
6. Nature, Norms, and Beasts......Page 198
The Beast Within......Page 201
Animal Affects (and) the First Man......Page 214
Ethics as Ethology?......Page 223
Works Cited......Page 234
Index......Page 248