Affectivity and Philosophy after Spinoza and Nietzsche Making Knowle
Pethick investigates a much neglected philosophical connection between two of the most controversial figures in the history of philosophy: Spinoza and Nietzsche. By examining the crucial role that affectivity plays in their philosophies, this book claims
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Affectivity and Philosophy after Spinoza and Nietzsche Making Knowledge the Most Powerful Affect Stuart Pethick
© Stuart Pethick 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-48605-9 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-55307-5 ISBN 978-1-137-48606-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-48606-6 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
Contents
Acknowledgements
vii
Note on Referencing
viii
Introduction
1
1 Spinoza: Discovering What the Body Can Do 1.1 Descartes’ cogito and the power of ideas 1.2 Spinoza and the affective-imagination 1.3 Affectivity: a vacillation of joy and sadness 1.4 The body as duration 1.5 Euphoric and dysphoric bodies 1.6 Adequacy of ideas 1.7 The signs of the affective-imagination 1.8 From general to common notions 1.9 Conatus: ‘how’ things are, not ‘what’ things are
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2 Nietzsche and the Sign Language of the Affects 2.1 Interpreting the sign-language of the affects 2.2 Neither substance nor subject 2.3 Will as affect 2.4 Consciousness and other perspectives 2.5 Evoking the multiplicity of the body 2.6 Consciousness as communication 2.7 Affect as interpretation 2.8 Consciousness and responsibility 2.9 Memory, consciousness and morality
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3 Will-to-Power: Redeeming the Body from the Ascetic Ideal 3.1 Philosophy as the negation of the perspectival 3.2 The joy and sadn
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