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Michael Hardt

"Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that humans always remain part of nature, acting solely according to the same rules. She demonstrates the political consequences of adopting this perspective through a provocative intervention in contemporary feminist theory, while along the way opening promising avenues for future work in a variety of other fields, such as animal studies and ecology. This is a challenging and important book."

-- Michael Hardt

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“Prior to the advent of the civilization of the Third Estate (mercantilism, capitalism), the social ethics that was religiously sanctioned in the West consisted in realizing oneâ€™s being and in achieving oneâ€™s own perfection within the fixed parameters that oneâ€™s individual nature and the group to which one belonged clearly defined. Economic activity, work, and profit were justified only in the measure in which they were necessary for sustenance and to ensure the dignity of an existence conformed to oneâ€™s own estate, without the lower instinct of self-interest or profit coming first.”
“Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire.”
“The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.”
“During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.”

Source : "Wood and it be good". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2007.
“How many fluids should you take in daily?Â That is an unanswerable question with all of the variables that affect our fluid needs at any given time.Â If you meet anyone who can answer that question for you, run away quickly.”
“We do not want to have mercy for the things God has under judgment. We do not want to fall in the ditch on the otherside of unsanctified mercy.”
“I'm a vegetarian now, but I'm willing to make an exception in the event I'm presented with people. Because I've always been fairly standoffish; I have this tendency not to get to know people very well. And I don't think there is any better way to get to know humanity than to ingest it.”

Source : "Song: "Eating People" ("The Psychopathology of Everyday Life")". January 21, 2003.
“Everything disturbs an absent lover.”

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