Spinozian politic ontology: materialism and power of multitude

Abstract

In this article I try to develop points of confluence between Spinoza’s ontological thought and his political vision, and I use for this purpose the ethic’s concepts of desire. Assuming the multiple interpretations in the matter I will develop a conception which thinks Spinoza like a materialistic and immanent thinker, characteristics on which it will be possible sustain a political construction that looks for the autonomy of a new collective subject, the multitude. Nowadays, I believe that it is interesting to recover authors with new political visions in their epoch, which they fought against the dominant trend, in order to verify their possible implementation now.