Flourishing Through Spinoza

This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Hasana Sharp, Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. This conversation provides detailed insights into Hasana Sharp’s book “Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization”,  in which she offers a sophisticated new interpretation of Spinoza’s iconoclastic philosophy. Further topics include the implications of Spinoza’s naturalism to today’s world, from issues of social inequality, feminism, treatment of the elderly and the environment to animal rights, and more.


This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Philosophical Relevance, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:

I. Radical Beginnings - Revolutionary sympathies
II. Finding Spinoza - Investigating failed revolutions
III. The Joy of the Unknown - Naturalism, denaturalism, and the third way
IV. Modern Implications - Identity politics, animal rights and the environment
V. Philanthropic Post-Humanism - Onwards and upwards



About Ideas Roadshow Conversations:


This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert through a focused yet informal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks.