Sovereignty Disrupted - 9781503644151

Sovereignty DisruptedSpinoza and the Disparity of Reality\nAuthor(s): Gilah Kletenik\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503644151, 978-1503644151\nSynopsis\nAnthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of \""Western\"" philosophy. To corroborate this original thesis, the book uncovers how the rationales of sovereignty secure dominant \""Western\"" theories about the nature of reality, the promise of reason, and the status of humans. Such approaches rely on properties of sovereignty that essentialize difference, naturalize hierarchy, and valorize autonomy. \n\n To redress these models and the supremacies they promote, Gilah Kletenik turns to Spinoza. Through a fresh reading of his Ethics, Kletenik develops an egalitarian alternative that start.