Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations vii
4. Notes on Translation and Acknowledgements x
5. A Revolutionary Beatitude: Alexandre Matheron’s Spinozism xiii
6. I Spinoza on Ontology and Knowledge
7. 1 Idea, Idea of the Idea and Certainty in the Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione and the Ethics 1
8. 2 Essence, Existence and Power in Part I of the Ethics: The Foundations of Proposition 16 14
9. 3 Physics and Ontology in Spinoza: The Enigmatic Response to Tschirnhaus 27
10. 4 The Year 1663 and the Spinozist Identity of Being and Power: Hypothesis on a Development 50
11. 5 Eternal Life and the Body According to Spinoza 68
12. 6 Intellectual Love of God, Eternal Part of the amor erga Deum 81
13. II Spinoza on Politics and Ethics
14. 7 State and Morality According to Spinoza 103
15. 8 Ethics and Politics in Spinoza (Remarks on the Role of Ethics IV, 37 Scholium 2) 114
16. 9 Indignation and the Conatus of the Spinozist State 124
17. 10 Passions and Institutions According to Spinoza 136
18. 11 The Problem of Spinoza’s Evolution: From the Theologico-Political Treatise to the Political Treatise 163
19. 12 Is the State, According to Spinoza, an Individual in Spinoza’s Sense? 179
20. 13 The Ontological Status of Scripture and the Spinozist Doctrine of Individuality 201
21. 14 Spinoza and Power 210
22. 15 Spinoza and Property 224
23. 16 Spinoza and Sexuality 239
24. 17 Women and Servants in Spinozist Democracy 260
25. 18 The ‘Right of the Stronger’: Hobbes contra Spinoza 280
26. 19 The Theoretical Function of Democracy in Spinoza and Hobbes 307
27. 20 Spinoza and the Breakdown of Thomist Politics: Machiavellianism and Utopia 319
28. Appendix 1: Interview with Laurent Bove and Pierre-François Moreau 353
29. Appendix 2: Chronology of Works by Matheron 383
30. Works Cited 388
31. Index 395