Affects, Actions and Passions in Spinoza

Chantal Jaquet is Professor of Philosophy at the Université Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is the author of numerous books on Spinoza in French including Sub specie aeternitatis: étude des concepts de temps, durée et éternité chez Spinoza (1997), Spinoza ou la Prudence (1997), L’unité d corps et de l’esprit: Affects, actions, passions chez Spinoza (2004), Les expressions de la puissance d’agir chez Spinoza (2005), and Spinoza à l’oeuvre, composition des corps et force des idées (2017). Tatiana Reznichenko is a freelance translator and conference interpreter based in Paris.

• Introduction; 1. The Nature of the Union of Mind and Body in Spinoza; 2. Spinoza's Break with Descartes Regarding the Affects in Ethics III; 3. The Different Origins of the Affects in the Preface to the Theological-Political Treatise and in the Ethics; 4. The Definition of Affect in Ethics III; 5. Variations of the Mixed Discourse; Conclusion; Bibliography.

The discussion is technical but rewarding … The volume is the first in the Spinoza Studies series, which is intended to make the work of Continental scholars available in English. This first volume bodes well. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.