Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. List of Abbreviations xi
5. Introduction: The Politics of Renaturalization 1
6. PART I. RECONFIGURING THE HUMAN
7. 1. Lines, Planes, and Bodies: Redefining Human Action 21
8. 2. Renaturalizing Ideology: Spinoza’s Ecosystem of Ideas 55
9. 3. Man’s Utility to Man: Reason and Its Place in Nature 85
10. PART II. BEYOND THE IMAGE OF MAN
11. 4. Desire for Recognition? Butler, Hegel, and Spinoza 117
12. 5. The Impersonal Is Political: Spinoza and a Feminist Politics of Imperceptibility 155
13. 6. Nature, Norms, and Beasts 185
14. Works Cited 221
15. Index 235