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350Total imagination and ontology in R. G. CollingwoodBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 14 (2). 2006.In The Principles of Art, R. G. Collingwood pursues, on the one hand, a ‘definition’ of art, and, on the other, a ‘metaphysics’. The Principles is divided into three Books. Book I is devoted mostly to craft, while Book II pertains largely to metaphysics. The fact that Book II is twice the size of Book III, where the discussion of ‘art proper’ takes place, is proof enough that the metaphysical part of the Principles is not a mere excursus. Collingwood’s ontology is indispensable for understandin…Read more
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268Spinoza Now (edited book)University of Minnesota Press. 2011.This collection, the first broadly interdisciplinary volume dealing with Spinozan thought, asserts the importance of Spinoza’s philosophy of immanence for contemporary cultural and philosophical debates.
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46The critique of loneliness: towards the political motives of the doppelgängerAngelaki 9 (2). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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84"The return of negation: the Doppelganger in Freud's" The 'Uncanny'"Substance 35 (2): 100-116. 2006.
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1Introduction to AntigoneColloquy 11 6-7. 2006.Sophocles seems to have already reached in Antigone the same insight about the body politic which will again be expressed in the seventeenth century by Spinoza: namely, the political has as its condition of possibility the potential for being challenged from within. Sophocles’ play starts immediately after Thebes has successfully stoved off a challenge from an external enemy – from Argos, another city state. However, during the battle, Eteocles, the king, and his own brother, Polynices, who in f…Read more
Dimitris Vardoulakis
University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
Western Sydney University
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Western Sydney UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
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Baruch Spinoza |
Sovereignty |
Democracy |
Freedom and Liberty |
Equality |
Epicureans |