Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements x
4. Reference Conventions xi
5. A Note on the Translation xiii
6. Introduction: Althusser’s Overture 1
7. I. Of the Agency of the Multitude: Negri’s Interpretation of the Conatus Doctrine
8. 1 Philosophy of Joy 29
9. 2 The Pantheistic Undercurrent of Materialism 51
10. 3 The Controversy over the Doctrine of Attributes 63
11. 4 Of the Conatus Principle 82
12. 5 Spinoza contra Hobbes: Possessive Transindividualism 121
13. 6 Which Eternity, Whose Blessedness? 140
14. II. History and Ontology: Holland’s Historical Untimeliness
15. 1 The Savage Anomaly of the United Provinces 183
16. 2 Of Spinoza’s Fear of His Own Thinking 214
17. 3 Colonial Hallucinations: Marronage and Political Violence 231
18. III Of the Physics of the Political: Balibar and the Paradoxes of Spinozist Philosophy
19. 1 Ambivalences of the Political Theory of the State 249
20. 2 Wherein Lies the Power of the ‘Multitude Led as If by One Mind’? 265
21. 3 Active Matter: Spinoza’s Speculative Materialism 300
22. 4 The Birth of a Non-Cartesian Epistemology 311
23. IV. Spinoza or Descartes: Immanent or Impossible Cause
24. 1 Heterodox Readings of Descartes in Structuralism and Phenomenology 347
25. 2 Lacan’s Detour through Descartes: Negative Potentiality of Being 381
26. 3 The Cogito as Subject of the Revolution: Žižek Reading Lenin 421
27. 4 Deleuze and Badiou between Descartes and Spinoza 448
28. Conclusion: Thinking, Differing 490
29. Bibliography 497
30. Index 528