Trwanie i istnienie indywidualne w polu immanencji. Kilka uwag na temat antropologii politycznej Benedykta Spinozy
Duration and Individual Existence: on the Marigins of Spinoza’s Political Anthropology

Summary/Abstract: The essay tries to conceptualize political consequences of the early modern question concerning the problem of individuation by positing it as one of distinctive points between Decartes’ and Spinoza’s metaphysics. In the first part of the article reader will find two models of “economy” of “ontological production” presented as two approaches to the idea of power, which have –respectively- transcendent/sovereign and immanent/materialist character. Second part is devoted to detailed analysis of Spinoza’s idea of collective individuality, understood as a conceptual basis for elaboration of democratic project, present in his political writings. The shift, made in Spinoza’s philosophy, from the question of autonomy of individual existence towards the idea of individuality as a constitutive force, seems to provide a good starting point for critical analysis of limits of modern political and philosophical discourse.

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