Table of Contents

Note on References to the Ethics
Editor’s Note
Introduction: Spinoza Now, Dimitris Vardoulakis
Part I. Strategies for Reading Spinoza
1. Spinoza and the Conflict of Interpretations, Christopher Norris
2. What Is a Proof in Spinoza’s Ethics?, Alain Badiou
3. The Joyful Passions in Spinoza’s Theory of Relations, Simon Duffy
4. Spinoza’s Ass, Justin Clemens
Part II. Politics, Theology, and Interpretation
5. Toward an Inclusive Universalism: Spinoza’s Ethics of Sustainability, Michael Mack
6. Prophecy without Prophets: Spinoza and Maimonides on Law and the Democracy of Knowledge, Arthur J. Jacobson
7. Interjecting Empty Spaces: Imagination and Interpretation in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Warren Montag
8. Marx before Spinoza: Notes toward an Investigation, Cesare Casarino
Part III. Spinoza and the Arts
9. Image and Machine: Introduction to Thomas Hirschhorn’s Spinoza Monument, Sebastian Egenhofer
10. Spinoza, Ratiocination, and Art, Anthony Uhlmann
11. An Inter-Action: Rembrandt and Spinoza, Mieke Bal and Dimitris Vardoulakis
Part IV. Encounters about Life and Death
12. Power and Ontology between Heidegger and Spinoza, Antonio Negri
13. A Thought Beyond Dualisms: Creationist and Evolutionist Alike, A. Kiarina Kordela
14. A Matter of Life and Death: Spinoza and Derrida, Alexander García Düttmann
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Dimitris Vardoulakis is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Western Sydney. He is the author of The Doppelgänger: Literature’s Philosophy.