French Literature Reviews - 2026
Anne Texier, L’Idée de décision chez Spinoza
Philosophy, Anthropology and Ideas
Anne Texier
L’Idée de décision chez Spinoza
Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. “Les Anciens et les Modernes - Études de philosophie”, no. 70, 2025.
Spinoza's thought offers an alternative conception of decision-making that relies neither on free will nor on the power of choice. This book examines how this concept develops across his works, from its matrix in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect to its collective version in the Political Treatise.
Also available in a hardcover edition - EAN 9782406191049 - priced at 95 EUR.
Spinozist scholarship has long engaged with the ontological and ethical dimensions of necessitarianism, particularly regarding human agency and practical reason. Within early modern philosophy, rejecting traditional notions of libertarian free will required rethinking how actions and resolutions are initiated by the mind. Anne Texier examines how this conceptual shift operates across Baruch Spinoza's corpus, tracing the development of decision from its matrix in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect to its collective version in the Political Treatise.
Readers interested in seventeenth-century metaphysics, rationalist ethics, and the history of political thought may find this study relevant. Spinoza's thought offers an alternative conception of decision-making that relies neither on free will nor on the power of choice, examining how this concept develops across his works.