Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce

by Patrick McGee

Book Overview

Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination explores the democratic thought of Spinoza and its relation to the thought of William Blake, Victor Hugo, and James Joyce. As a group, these visionaries articulate: a concept of power founded not on strength or might but on social cooperation; a principle of equality based not on the identity of individuals with one another but on the difference between any individual and the intellectual power of society...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150132005X
• ISBN13: 9781501320057
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"