Apologies for Cross Postings
Call for Papers AAG CHICAGO
Encounters with Spinoza
Every century, it seems, has had its Spinoza: the materialist and
atheist Spinoza of the 18th century, the mystic and pantheist Spinoza
of the 19th century and the revolutionary Spinoza of the late twentieth
century. Indeed, in the past thirty years Spinoza has been the subject
of many encounters, including Deleuze's expressionism, Negri's
post-Marxist materialism, and Gaten's and Lloyd's reconceptualization
of freedom, responsibility and difference to name but a few.
How is Spinoza being read currently by geographers? What might his
thinking offer to those working on ethics and politics, the art of
organization, bodies and space-time, non-Cartesian modes of thought, or
other areas of interest in our discipline? What are the strengths and
limits of Spinoza's thought for our times? It would seem for starters
that Spinoza's radicalized ontology and philosophy of immanence hold
great promise as they make more apparent the dynamism, productivity and
spatiality of social and political relations inherent in any given
moment. But there are many Spinozas...
This call for papers is an invitation for scholars to discuss and
debate their encounters with Spinoza in their own work and the ways
they think Spinoza might be relevant to geographic thought.
Please contact the organizers with questions and expressions of
interest (name, title and a sentence or two on your paper) by August
15th. Paper abstracts will be due mid September.
Organizers: Sue Ruddick [log in to unmask] and Bruce Braun
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