Spinoza and Relational Autonomy

Aurelia Armstrong is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Queensland, Australia. She has published many essays on Spinoza, Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze and Feminism. Keith Green is Professor of Philosophy at East Tennessee State University. He has published widely on Spinoza and Aquinas in a number of journals. Andrea Sangiacomo is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. He is the author of Spinoza on Reason, Passions and the Supreme Good (Oxford University Press).s. He is the author of L’essenza del corpo. Spinoza e la scienza delle composizioni (Olms, 2013).

• Editors’ IntroductionAurelia Armstrong , Keith Green and Andrea Sangiacomo1. Relational Autonomy: State of the Art DebateCatriona Mackenzie2. Epistemic Autonomy in Descartes, Spinoza and Kant: The Value of Thinking for OneselfUrsula Renz3. Spinoza on the Interaction of Ideas: Biased BeliefsMartin Lenz4. Spinoza on Natures: Aristotelian and Mechanistic Routes to Relational AutonomyMatthew Kisner5. Spinoza’s Path from Imaginative Transindividuality to Intuitive Relational Autonomy: From Fusion, Confusion and Fragmentation to Moral IntegrityHeidi M. Ravven6. Revisiting Spinoza’s concept of conatus: Degrees of AutonomyCaroline Williams7. Bodies Politic and Civic AgreementJustin Steinberg8. Power, Freedom and Relational AutonomyEricka Tucker9. Spinoza on Affirmation, Anima and Autonomy: ‘Shattered Spirits’Keith Green10. A Spinozistic Approach to Relational Autonomy: The Case of ProstitutionAndrea SangiacomoContributorsIndex

Autonomy is an absolutely central element in Spinoza’s metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy. This volume, with insightful essays by both seasoned and younger scholars, not only offers new perspectives on the nature of autonomy in Spinoza, but also shows once again his relevance for contemporary philosophical themes.