Freedom of Speech as an Expressive Mode of Existence |
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Authors: | Alexander Carnera |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Porcel?nshaven, 18 A, Second Floor, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Abstract: | This paper adopts Deleuze’s reading of Spinoza’s expressionism and pure semiotics to argue that Spinoza’s Ethics offers an
alternative notion of freedom of speech that is based on the potentia of the individual. Its aim is to show how freedom of
thought is connected to the problem of individuation that connects our mode of being with our power to speak and think. Rather
than treating freedom of speech as an enlightened idea that is in opposition to, for example, religious authority, or the
suppression of human rights, this paper argues that freedom of speech should be understood by what Spinoza calls ‘an adequate
idea’: an idea that explains the cause of its own production. What is to be considered is: who wants this freedom, in what
situation, why, what is at stake? No freedom in itself is ever given. This paper argues for speech as an assembled body that
is always in connection with other bodies. It is argued that to understand the power and value of the freedom of speech, we
should study the praxis of the utterance as an assembled body, its causal dimensions, and its affective immanent relations
with other bodies, and other modes of speaking. |
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