Spinoza's Geographical Ethics

Joe Gerlach is Associate Professor in Cultural Geography at the University of Bristol. He is a cultural geographer whose research interests are centred conceptually on geophilosophy, micropolitics, posthuman ethics, and Spinoza. He is co-editor of Why Guattari? A Liberation of Politics, Cartographies and Ecologies (Routledge, 2021).

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNote on the TextWriting Earths Otherwise: Spinoza’s GeographyChapter One: CartographyChapter Two: RightChapter Three: HopeChapter Four: ChiaroscuroChapter Five: CompactCoda: Under the aspect of geographyReferencesNotesIndex

Razor-sharp and gleefully acerbic, Joe Gerlach delivers a brilliant and uncompromising corrective to a politics too often tethered to optimism and hope as ready-made responses to the crises that beset us. Spinoza’s Geographical Ethics truly frames a Spinoza for our time—one that reckons with the irreducible ambivalence of existence, warts and all.