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    Brancusi's Golden Bird and loy's "Brancusi's Golden Bird": A Spinozist Encounter

    Thomas, Christopher ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0346-2417 (2020) Brancusi's Golden Bird and loy's "Brancusi's Golden Bird": A Spinozist Encounter. Philosophy and Literature, 44 (1). pp. 66-79. ISSN 0190-0013

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    Abstract

    The lack of any explicit engagement with art and aesthetics, coupled with his strong rationalism and naturalism, has led to the claim that Spinoza held a philosophy actively "hostile" to art. My essay, contrary to this claim, brings together certain key principles of Spinozism and a poem by futurist poet Mina Loy. I argue that when viewed under Spinoza's ontology of power and through his relational theory of the individual, works of art and literature emerge as particularly active sites of relation that are both constitutive of, and constituted by, the wider affective field within which they find themselves.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 05 May 2020 08:23
    Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Additional Information: This is an Author Accepted Manuscript of a paper accepted for publication in Philosophy and Literature, published by and copyright Johns Hopkins University Press.
    Divisions: Faculties > Arts and Humanities
    Subject terms: Philosophy, 2005 Literary Studies, 2203 Philosophy
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/625678
    ISSN 0190-0013
    e-ISSN 1086-329X

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