230:("people"). It has been translated with negative connotations as "the mob", "the rabble", or "the vulgar", but Curley advised against these translations with the exception of "the mob" in some political contexts. Curley wrote that Spinoza often applied the term not only to people whose capacity and views he considered unreliable, but also in contrast to philosophers. However, Spinoza also occasionally wrote of a "
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This constituent aspect of the movement of the multitude, in its myriad faces, is really the positive terrain of the historical construction of Empire, ... an antagonistic and creative positivity. The deterritorializing power of the multitude is the productive force that sustains Empire and at the same time the force that calls for and makes necessary its destruction.
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in 1665 that he worked to counter the "prejudices of theologians", citing them as "the main obstacles to ... philosoph". Thus he sought to "expos such prejudices and remov them from the minds of sensible people". He aimed to "vindicate completely" the freedom to philosophize, "for here it is in every
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New figures of struggle and new subjectivities are produced in the conjecture of events, in the universal nomadism ... . They are not posed merely against the imperial system—they are not simply negative forces. They also express, nourish, and develop positively their own constituent projects. ...
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they still refrain from a clear definition of the concept but approach the concept through mediation of a host of "contemporary" phenomena, most importantly the new type of postmodern war they postulate and the history of post-WWII resistance movements. It remains a rather vague concept which is
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production become a constituent power. ... We do not have any models to offer for this event. Only the multitude through its practical experimentation will offer the models and determine when and how the possible becomes real.
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in its historical context. Spinoza apparently derived the term from engaging with Hobbes, for whom it was also a technical term, but with whom he differed. It appears primarily in his mature political philosophy in the
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deployed it more technically in philosophy and in engaging with their respective historical or intellectual contexts. Later philosophers and theorists revived it, often explicitly from
Spinoza. In the work of
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2446:Spinoza: Basic Concepts
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