{"product_id":"sovereignty-disrupted-spinoza-and-the-disparity-of-reality-paperback-softback-9781503644465","title":"Sovereignty Disrupted; Spinoza and the Disparity of Reality (Paperback \/ softback) 9781503644465","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSovereignty Disrupted\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eSpinoza and the Disparity of Reality\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGilah Kletenik (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503644465\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 21 October 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e432 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnthropocentrism, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTo redress these models and the supremacies they promote, Gilah Kletenik turns to Spinoza. Through a fresh reading of his \u003ci\u003eEthics\u003c\/i\u003e, Kletenik develops an egalitarian alternative that starts with denaturalizing sovereignty. It is not a coincidence that Spinoza critiques the hegemonic rationales of \"Western\" philosophy nor that his doing so has eluded analysis. This is because his insurrection against \"Western\" sovereignties is sparked by the scintillas of immanence that he inherits from medieval Jewish and Islamic naturalism, the very philosophies that Christian, \"Western,\" thought has repressed. This book recovers these marginalized voices, exposing centuries of interpretations that assimilate Spinoza's program to the sovereignties he disrupts. Kletenik thinks \u003ci\u003ewith\u003c\/i\u003e Spinoza to unmask the supremacies of colonialism, neoliberalism, and cishetsexism alongside the sovereignties anchoring contemporary theory. In critiquing \"Western\" philosophy, Kletenik limns a more ethical alternative, oriented by immanence and disparity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52521228566808,"sku":"9781503644465","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sovereignty-disrupted-spinoza-and-the-disparity-of-reality-paperback-softback-9781503644465","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}