Human Power and Ecological Flourishing: Refiguring Right and Advantage with Spinoza.
This paper argues for an interpretation of Spinoza's concept of human power that is conducive to ecological flourishing. Acknowledging the elements in Spinoza that authorize human exceptionalism, I argue for a countervailing conception of human power as ecologically interdependent. This model accoun...
| Published in: | Substance: A Review of Theory & Literary Criticism Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 81 - 102 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2019
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