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Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics

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Potentia: Hobbes and Spinoza on Power and Popular Politics

Sandra Leonie Field
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We live in an age of growing dissatisfaction with the standard operations of representative democracy. The solution, according to a long radical democratic tradition, is the unmediated power of the people. Mass plebiscites and mass protest movements are celebrated as the quintessential expression of popular power, and this power promises to transcend ordinary institutional politics. But the outcomes of mass political phenomena can be just as disappointing as the ordinary politics they sought to overcome, breeding skepticism about democratic politics in all its forms. Potentia argues that the very meaning of popular power needs to be rethought. It offers a detailed study of the political philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Benedict de Spinoza, focusing on their concept of power as potentia, concrete power, rather than power as potestas, authorized power. Specifically, the book's argument turns on a new interpretation of potentia as a capacity that is dynamically constituted in a web...
Година:
2020
Издателство:
Oxford University Press
Език:
english
ISBN:
9C70B087-5637-47D3-844A-210A2D689769
Файл:
MOBI , 1.79 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2020
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