Rosi Braidotti, a reader of Spinoza: Affirmative politics beyond humanism

Abstract

In this article, I propose an approach to Italian philosopher Rosi Braidotti’s work to trace her singular reading and recovery of the ethical and political legacy of Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza’s monistic ontology has enabled her to propose a novel and radical form of critical post-humanism, which helps both to demonstrate the theoretical and conceptual limits of traditional humanism and to advance in a line of research that begins with the acceptance of the Nature-Culture continuum. I review Braidotti’s proposal for affirmative ethics and politics that address the complexity of our present times.