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Book Review: Common Sense: A Political History

Lastly, I worry that the basic impulse of the book is less one of dialogue with the past—examining what Spinoza’s theory of freedom and current discussions of autonomy illuminate about one another—than of domestication— employing Spinoza’s thought mostly to shore up familiar moral intuitions. And yet, Kisner’s study is only in keeping with the prevailing analytic mode of Spinoza study—a philosophical approach aimed soberly at describing our various patterns of thought and action rather than at diagnosing and dislodging their often captivating hold on us. The normative effects of that descriptivist program surely merit the interest—and response—of political theorists.