Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Abbreviations of Spinoza’s Works vi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Spinoza’s Ontology Geometrically Illustrated: A Reading of Ethics IIP8S 5
7. 2 Reason and Body in Spinoza’s Metaphysics 19
8. 3 Ratio and Activity: Spinoza’s Biologising of the Mind in an Aristotelian Key 33
9. 4 Harmony in Spinoza and his Critics 46
10. 5 Ratio as the Basis of Spinoza’s Concept of Equality 61
11. 6 Proportion as a Barometer of the Affective Life in Spinoza 74
12. 7 Spinoza, Heterarchical Ontology, and Affective Architecture 89
13. 8 Dissimilarity: Spinoza’s Ethical Ratios and Housing Welfare 108
14. 9 The Greater Part: How Intuition Forms Better Worlds 125
15. 10 Slownesses and Speeds, Latitudes and Longitudes: In the Vicinity of Beatitude 141
16. 11 The Eyes of the Mind: Proportion in Spinoza, Swift, and Ibn Tufayl 155
17. Notes on Contributors 169
18. Bibliography 172
19. Index 185