Caporali, Riccardo2019-09-252019-09-252012-11-1720041825-5167http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/188286In the variety of methods and topics, the essays gathered here revolve around the problem of the relationship between unity and multiplicity, between individuality and collectivity in Spinoza’s thinking. This is a central and crucial issue, both in its specific political dimension as well as in its inevitable intersections to which it opens with its more exquisitely moral and theoretical side in the philosophy of Spinoza. This issue is addressed, in the first place, in relation to the notion of «time», in the perspective of a radically and infinitely mobile and modifiable immanence, continuously disassembled and reassembled in the multiplicity of single «durations», according to a conception that is ideally connected to Lucrezio’s atomistic materialism and the Macchiavellian concept of «occasion», contrasting itself frontally with other visions, monistic and serial, theological and telelological, both ancient and modern (from Plato and the Stoics to Descartes, from Hobbes to Hegel).engWith permission of the license/copyright holderSpinozaIndividualMultitudePolitical ethicsMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsArticle