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Although discussing high-stakes, tense disputation, Peters does not write contentiously. (Though there are points of substantial correction: a remarkable footnote, which begins on page 146 and colonizes the entirety of 147, debunks the claim that the advent of the inquisitorial process in medieval Europe meant the end of “community participation” in trials.) I sometimes felt I was on an impossibly erudite, analytically acute, and very funny tour of European law, as it was practiced: messily, showily, and humanly. Yet Peters challenges two familiar ideas about law, related to each other. First, philosophers from Plato on have argued that law ought not be, or even is the antithesis of, theatricality; second, numerous histories plot toward legal theatricality’s decline, its replacement by a rule-driven, soberly bureaucratic, and modern courtroom.
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Next article FreeBook ReviewPoetic Form and Romantic Provocation. Carmen Faye Mathes. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. Pp. xii+245.Eric LindstromEric LindstromUniversity of Vermont Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreWhen Benedict de (Baruch) Spinoza was expelled from the synagogue, he is reported to have said: “All the better; they do not force me to do anything that I would not have done of my own accord if I did not dread scandal.”1 His thought and works were the subject of philosophical and religious controversy across Europe for much of the next two centuries, their very policing made foundational to Western intellectual modernity in many of its standard tellings. (According to Jonathan Israel, underground communities of dissident Spinozist thought provide the key to a “Radical Enlightenment” countermodernity.)2 In her long-awaited book Thinking through Poetry: Field Notes on the Romantic Lyric (2018),3 Marjorie Levinson powerfully leveraged not only the controversy embedded in the history of Spinoza’s thought, but her own past notoriety as a brilliantly polemical new historicist literary scholar in British Romantic studies, into the excitement of a bold recognition of not cultural but poetic materialism: a monist, materialist philosophical poetics. In this shift from history to poetics, Spinoza supplied the terms for a postdialectical materialism. Where Levinson was long known as the argumentative demolisher of the evasively grand harmonies of William Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey,” Thinking through Poetry exchanged that fierce repute for something irenic, elaborating upon the mostly intuitive and affective Spinozism found in Romantic poetry, on the grounds of Wordsworth’s nondualistic lyricism of motion and spirit.Characteristically argument driven, Levinson’s study also—and I would surmise deliberately—cultivated a self-stylizing dimension that measured its aim and impact as the performance of an apparent conversion along the road of a major scholarly career. And yet, as in Spinoza’s thought, the idea of a consciously willful shift is ultimately presented as an illusion. The act of a high-profile academic critic repositioning herself over a lifetime through altering trends, Thinking through Poetry instead announces a generative (and belatedly generous) adjustment to lower-frequency rhythms of being there all along: an anthropological and ontological tribute to the inescapable truth of Spinoza’s conatus. Conatus, as Mathes states in her own new study, is a fundamental “striving to persist in being” (17). In Levinson’s characteristically more fulsome elaboration:Conatus is defined as a ceaseless and instinctive striving through which individuals endeavor to persist in their individuality. What gives conatus its radical cast is that unlike an instinct for self-preservation operat
下一篇免费书评:诗歌形式与浪漫挑衅。卡门·费·马瑟斯。加州斯坦福:斯坦福大学出版社，2022。第十二Pp. + 245。埃里克·林德斯特伦里克·林德斯特伦佛蒙特大学搜索本文添加到收藏夹下载CitationTrack citationspermissions转载分享在facebook上twitter上linkedin上redditemailprint sectionsmore当本尼迪克特·德(巴鲁克)·斯宾诺莎被犹太教堂开除时，据报道他说:“一切都更好;他们不会强迫我做任何事，如果我不害怕流言蜚语，我是不会自愿去做的。在接下来的两个世纪里，他的思想和作品成为了整个欧洲哲学和宗教争论的主题，正是这些思想和作品在许多标准叙事中为西方知识分子的现代性奠定了基础。(根据乔纳森·伊斯莱尔的说法，持不同政见的斯宾诺莎思想的地下社区为“激进启蒙运动”的反现代性提供了关键。)《浪漫主义抒情诗》(2018)，3玛乔丽·莱文森不仅有力地利用了斯宾诺莎思想史上的争议，还利用了她过去作为英国浪漫主义研究领域一位善于辩论的新历史主义文学学者的名声，使她大胆地承认了不是文化的而是诗意的唯物主义:一种一元论、唯物主义的哲学诗学。在这种从历史到诗学的转变中，斯宾诺莎为后辩证唯物主义提供了条件。莱文森长期以来被认为是威廉·华兹华斯(William Wordsworth)的《丁丁修道院》(tinintern Abbey)中模糊的宏大和声的论证者，而《通过诗歌思考》(Thinking through Poetry)将这一激烈的名声变成了一种绝妙的东西，在华兹华斯对运动和精神的非二元抒情的基础上，详细阐述了浪漫主义诗歌中最直观和最感性的斯宾诺莎主义。莱文森的研究以其独特的论点为导向，我猜测他是故意培养了一种自我风格化的维度，以衡量其目标和影响，作为其在主要学术生涯道路上明显转变的表现。然而，在斯宾诺莎的思想中，有意识的转变的想法最终被呈现为一种幻觉。作为一位知名的学术评论家，她通过改变潮流来重新定位自己的一生，《诗思》反而宣布了一种创造性的(姗姗来迟的)调整，以适应始终存在的低频节奏:对斯宾诺莎的conatus不可避免的真理的人类学和本体论致敬。正如马蒂斯在她自己的新研究中所说的那样，Conatus是一种基本的“坚持存在的努力”(17)。在Levinson特有的更充实的阐述中:Conatus被定义为一种不断的本能的奋斗，通过这种奋斗，个人努力坚持自己的个性。斯宾诺莎的conatus之所以具有激进的性质，是因为它不同于个体内部的自我保护本能，可以这么说(也不同于为精神实体服务的身体本能)，它把个体等同于他们在动态的关系集合中保持动态平衡的努力，这种关系集合也将他们作为个体组成。“人类的身体，为了保存，需要许多其他的身体，通过这些身体，它可以不断地再生。”岩石、石头、树木、思想、书籍、学者:一个实体的各种各样的物质体。然而，就莱文森的《思考》在最近的浪漫主义研究中标志着一种转变而言，这在很大程度上是由于其特定作者的非个人的特殊重要性，与斯宾诺莎唯物主义和“怀疑主义”哲学中最固有的情感品质相匹配。不管它有多混乱，它都是惊人的平静。从莱文森的斯宾诺莎到浪漫主义中研究同情、情感、性别、殖民主义和种族的学者，更不用说英国浪漫主义诗歌的学术研究，卡门·费·马蒂斯的《诗歌形式与浪漫挑衅》充分展示了“动态关系中动态平衡”的相同品质。然而，马蒂斯的斯宾诺莎增加了一个必要的因素，在进一步唤起conatus作为“我们可以抵抗情感的力量”(18)。《诗意的形式》和《浪漫的挑衅》的优美音符是这种通常是非个人的抵抗，用斯宾诺莎的话说，这不是英雄的努力，而是在失望、绊倒、“不请自来的责任”(29)和“努力忍受”(37)等即兴形式中发现的。
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