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262Spinoza 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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83"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
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25The Freedom to LiePhilosophy Today 58 (2): 141-162. 2014.This article examines the connection between lying and the concept of freedom, especially in the wake of the social contract tradition. I show that the liar poses a particular threat to the social contract. As a result, lying has been portrayed as a pernicious threat to the political. This culminates in Kant’s outright rejection of lying under any circumstance. From the Kantian perspective, one can be free only if one does not lie. Conversely, Spinoza’s co-implication of virtue and power entails…Read more
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Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799 By Anthony J. La VopaAuslegung 27 65-68. 2004.
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192The Politics of Nothing: On Sovereignty (edited book)Routledge. 2012.This book questions what sovereignty looks like when it is de-ontologised; when the nothingness at the heart of claims to sovereignty is unmasked and laid bare. Drawing on critical thinkers in political theology, such as Schmitt, Agamben, Nancy, Blanchot, Paulhan, The Politics of Nothing asks what happens to the political when considered in the frame of the productive potential of the nothing? The answers are framed in terms of the deep intellectual histories at our disposal for considering thes…Read more
Dimitris Vardoulakis
University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
Western Sydney University
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Western Sydney UniversityAssociate Professor
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Baruch Spinoza |
Sovereignty |
Democracy |
Freedom and Liberty |
Equality |
Epicureans |