The lack of any explicit engagement with art and aesthetics, coupled with his strong rationalism and naturalism, has led to the claim that Spinoza held a philosophy actively "hostile" to art. My essay, contrary to this claim, brings together certain key principles of Spinozism and a poem by futurist poet Mina Loy. I argue that when viewed under Spinoza's ontology of power and through his relational theory of the individual, works of art and literature emerge as particularly active sites of relation that are both constitutive of, and constituted by, the wider affective field within which they find themselves.

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布朗库西的金鸟和洛伊的“布朗库西的金鸟”：斯宾诺兹主义者的邂逅

缺乏对艺术和美学的任何明确参与，加上他强烈的理性主义和自然主义，导致斯宾诺莎持有一种积极“敌视”艺术的哲学。与这种说法相反，我的文章将斯宾诺莎主义的某些关键原则和未来主义诗人米娜洛伊的一首诗结合在一起。我认为，当在斯宾诺莎的权力本体论和他的个人关系理论下观察时，艺术和文学作品作为特别活跃的关系场所出现，它们既由更广泛的情感领域构成，又由他们发现自己的更广泛的情感领域构成。 .