Spinoza's Philosophy of Ratio (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Lord, Beth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discover Spinoza's philosophy of ratio, from geometry and reason to bodies, affects and architecture

From his geometrical method to his theory of mind and body and from his account of the emotions to his doctrine of how to live well, ratio is of prime importance in Spinoza''s philosophy.

These essays explore the surprisingly varied dimensions of this unacknowledged keystone of Spinoza's thought. They take you from Spinoza's geometrical diagrams to his concepts of mind, body, the emotions, and the cosmos. It shows how Spinoza's thinking about ratio influences the concept of proportion in Gulliver's Travels, the differential ontology of Deleuze, egalitarian design for wellbeing, and the notion of an affective architecture.

Key Features

• The first major work to explore ratio as a key concept of Spinoza''s thought
• Reveals that ratio is a multi-faceted concept that connects geometry, minds, reason, bodies, social relations and the cosmos in Spinoza''s philosophy
• Shows how ratio can be used to address enduring questions in Spinoza''s thought and take his philosophy in exciting new directions
• Offers new applications of Spinoza''s thinking to architecture, design and urban studies

Contributors

Simon B. Duffy, Yale-NUS College, Singapore.

Hélène Frichot, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden.

Gökhan Kodalak, Cornell University, USA.

Michael LeBuffe, University of Otago, Canada.

Beth Lord, University of Aberdeen, UK.

Heidi M. Ravven, Hamilton College, New York, USA.

Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK.

Anthony Uhlmann, Western Sydney University, Australia.

Valtteri Viljanen, University of Turku, Finland.

Stefan White, Manchester School of Architecture, UK.

Timothy Yenter, University of Mississippi, USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474420457
• Artikelnr.: 56935998

Autorenporträt

Beth Lord is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is the author of Kant and Spinozism: Transcendental Idealism and Immanence from Jacobi to Deleuze (2011) and Spinoza's Ethics: an Edinburgh Philosophical Guide (2010), and editor of Spinoza Beyond Philosophy (2012) and the Bloomsbury Companion to Continental Philosophy (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Acknowledgements
Author biographies
Abbreviations of Spinoza's works
List of figures
Introduction, Beth Lord
1. Spinoza's Ontology Geometrically Illustrated: A Reading of Ethics IIP8SM, Valtteri Viljanen
2. Reason and Body in Spinoza's Metaphysics, Michael LeBuffe
3. Ratio and Activity: Spinoza's Biologizing of the Mind in an Aristotelian Key, Heidi M. Ravven
4. Harmony in Spinoza and His Critics, Timothy Yenter
5. Ratio as the basis of Spinoza's concept of equality, Beth Lord
6. Proportion as a barometer of the affective life in Spinoza, Simon B. Duffy
7. Spinoza, Heterarchical Ontology and Affective Architecture, Gökhan Kodalak
8. Dissimilarity: Spinoza's ethical ratios and housing welfare, Peg Rawes
9. The greater part: How intuition forms better worlds, Stefan White
10. Slownesses and Speeds, Latitudes and Longitudes: In the Vicinity of Beatitude, Hélène Frichot
11. The Eyes of the Mind: Proportion in Spinoza, Swift, Ibn Tufayl, Anthony Uhlmann
Bibliography.