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The Impersonal Is Political: Spinoza and a Feminist Politics of Imperceptibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Hasana Sharp
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Abstract

This essay examines Elizabeth Grosz's provocative claim that feminist and anti-racist theorists should reject a politics of recognition in favor of “a politics of imperceptibility.” She criticizes any humanist politics centered upon a dialectic between self and other. I turn to Spinoza to develop and explore her alternative proposal. I claim that Spinoza offers resources for her promising politics of corporeality, proximity, power, and connection that includes all of nature, which feminists should explore.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Fall 2009 , pp. 84 - 103
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Copyright © 2009 by Hypatia, Inc.

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