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Political power and depoliticized acquiescence: Spinoza and aristocracy
- Author(s):
- Sandra Leonie Field (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Philosophy
- Subject(s):
- Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677, Democracy--Philosophy, Power (Social sciences), Sovereignty
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Spinoza, Democratic theory, Social power, Power
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/01xr-4963
- Abstract:
- According to a recent interpretive orthodoxy, Spinoza is a profoundly democratic theorist of state authority. I reject this orthodoxy. To be sure, for Spinoza, a political order succeeds in proportion as it harnesses the power of the people within it. However, Spinoza shows that political inclusion is only one possible strategy to this end; equally if not more useful is political exclusion, so long as it maintains what I call the depoliticised acquiescence of those excluded.
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- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 3 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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