Moira Gatens: 2 books
Imaginary Bodies
Ethics, Power and Corporeality
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Moira Gatens investigates the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space. Representations of sexual difference have unacknowledged philosophical roots which cannot be dismissed as a superficial bias on the part of the philosopher, nor removed without destroying...
Collective Imaginings
Spinoza, Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2002
Why would the work of the 17th century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza concern us today? How can Spinoza shed any light on contemporary thought?
In this intriguing book, Moira Gatens and Genevieve Lloyd show us that in spite of or rather because of Spinoza's apparent strangeness, his philosophy can...