IS THIS A MAN? - A MEETING BETWEEN PRIMO LEVI AND SPINOZA
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2447-9012.espinosa.2020.171654Keywords:
Affects, Imitation, Resemblance, Human, SociabilityAbstract
The spinozian critical fortune records that, starting with
proposition 27 of Ethics Part iii, something completely original appears
in the examination of affective life: the imitation of affections. Spinoza’s
novelty, in comparison with his contemporaries, is to describe the
production of affections no longer from an external object, but from the
conduct of “something”, or “someone”, on an object - considering that
this production is rooted in the fact that we imagine that this “someone”
or that “something” is similar to us. The proposition links a long
deductive sequence that runs through the rest of Part iii, supports the
crucial Part iv propositions on politics and law and reaches the Political
Treaty [i, v]. Our intention is to evaluate the meanings of this proposition
in Spinoza’s political thought, based on a review of this problem
in critical fortune - taking into account some passages in the works of
Primo Levi (1919-1987). In particular the “Chemistry Test”, chapter of
this book If This Is a Man? [Se questo è un uomo?].
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