Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene
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- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2026
Summary
Central to Genevieve Lloyd’s approach is a fresh look at Spinoza’s critique of what he regards as Descartes’ flawed way of imagining the nature and status of human thought in relation to the rest of Nature. Lloyd argues that the influence of the Cartesian model lingers in the contemporary collective imagination. She challenges a common way of reading the Ethics, which reflects and reinforces the figure of Spinoza as a ‘rationalist’ — committed to the superiority and dominance of Reason within human minds. By offering a more nuanced account of Spinoza’s version of Reason, Lloyd brings his philosophy to bear on a range of familiar, but largely unexamined attitudes, which connect the supposed supremacy of Reason within the human mind to humanity’s supposed supremacy within Nature.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399533379 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399533371 |
| Author: | Genevieve Lloyd |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 274g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 137mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Spinoza Studies |
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Critics Review
Over many years, and across several publications, Genevieve Lloyd has demonstrated that Spinoza’s thought is not a mere historical curiosity, but offers crucial resources to comprehend our contemporary predicament and to engage with the world around us. Reading Spinoza in the Anthropocene is a brilliant effort to think through the major challenges faced by humanity duty from the perspective of Spinoza’s radical philosophy. A must read for Spinoza scholars and anyone who cares about the fate of humanity today. * Dimitris Vardoulakis, author of Spinoza, the Epicurean *
The originality of [Lloyd’s] approach here consists in emphasizing the “epistemological” aspects of the ecological problem, the purpose of the book being to examine the singular status of reason in Spinoza. – Mathieu Le Pors * Archives de philosophie *
Genevieve Lloyd
Genevieve Lloyd is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and a fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Her main research areas have been in History of Philosophy, Philosophy and Literature and Feminist Philosophy. She is the author of Reclaiming Wonder: After the Sublime (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Enlightenment Shadows (Oxford University Press, 2013), Providence Lost (Harvard University Press, 2008), Collective Imaginings(Routledge, 1999), Spinoza and the Ethics (Routledge, 1996), Part of Nature (Cornell University Press, 1994), Being in Time (Routledge, 1993) and The Man of Reason (2nd edn) (Routledge,1993).
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