Böcker i Spinoza Studies-serien

A definitive collection of Matheron's essays on Spinoza available in English for the first time Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece Individu et communauté chez Spinoza (Éditions de Minuit) and he is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the twentieth century. The 20 essays gathered here focus on the themes of ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries. This is a crucial collection for anyone seeking to understand 20th-century continental Spinozism. Alexandre Matheron was Professor of Philosophy at the École normale supérieure at Fontentay/Saint Cloud. He remains one of the foremost authorities on Spinoza. Filippo Del Lucchese is Senior Lecturer in History of Political Thought at Brunel University, London. David Maruzzella received his MA in philosophie contemporaine from the École normale supérieure (Rue d'Ulm) and is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at DePaul University. Gil Morejón received his PhD in Philosophy from DePaul University. His research focuses on early modern metaphysics and contemporary political theory.

Revisiting the generally accepted notion of psycho-physical parallelism in Spinoza, Chantal Jaquet offers a new analysis of the relation between body and mind. Looking at a range of Spinoza's texts, and using an original methodology, she analyses their unity in action through affects, actions and passions.

Offers a powerful and influential interpretation of Spinoza's conatus - the essential striving that defines each of us - as fundamentally strategic. Spinozism must be understood as a dynamic ontology that necessarily unfolds on practical terrain. Laurent Bove analyses Spinoza's theory of affects as rooted in Habit, generating the constituent power of human beings, commonwealths, nations and multitudes. By interpreting sovereignty as a power that emerges through the active resistance of the always singular body of the multitude, Bove discovers in Spinoza a radically new approach to the State, to citizenship and to history. Laurent Bove is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Université de Picardie Jules-Verne. Émilie Filion-Donato is a McGill University philosophy graduate, translator, programmer and Spinoza enthusiast. Hasana Sharp is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McGill University.

Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relationship between ontology and politics, leading to an understanding of history as a complex and plural interweaving of different rhythms.

Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza-Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relationship between ontology and politics, leading to an understanding of history as a complex and plural interweaving of different rhythms.

Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece 'Individu et communaute chez Spinoza' (Editions de Minuit) and he is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the 20th century. The 20 essays gathered here focus on the themes of ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries. This is a crucial collection for anyone seeking to understand 20th-century continental Spinozism.

A provocative study of the intersection of Spinoza and Marx that shows how their respective philosophies engage overlapping questions and problems Spinoza and Marx would seem to be two very opposed philosophers. Spinoza was interested in contemplating eternal truths of nature while Marx was interested in the history of capital. Franck Fischbach suggests that by reading the two together we may better understand both history and nature, as well as ourselves, making possible a new understanding of human nature. Rather than see history and nature as opposed, history is nothing but the constant transformation of nature. Central to this transformation is a new understanding of alienation not as loss of the self in a world of objects, but as loss of objects in a world that disconnects us from nature and social relations, leaving us isolated as a subject. The isolated individual, the kingdom within a kingdom, as Spinoza put it, is not the condition of our liberation but the basis of our subjection. Franck Fischbach is Professor of the History of German Philosophy at the Sorbonne (University of Paris 1). He is the author of Après la production. Travail, nature et capital (Vrin, 2019), La privation de monde. Temps, espace et capital (Vrin, 2011) and L'être et l'acte. Enquête sur les fondements de l'ontologie moderne de l'agir, (Vrin, 2002) Jason Read is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine, USA.