Doing research for an article about democracy, aesthetics and pedagogy, I searched for stuff on relationalism and Spinoza, and stumbled upon this article… It confirms my idea that 1) it makes sense to go back to Spinoza because his work was done in a transitional period after which a certain world view (cartesian) has become so strong that we can’t imagine an alternative, and 2) that there are currents in early islamic philosophy that might represent an alternative world view, which has been opressed, and which is resurfacing in different forms, now (here and there…)