Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and French Philosophy

Jack Stetter is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans, USA.Charles Ramond is Full Professor at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France. He is also Member of the Philosophy Laboratory EA 4008 LLCP and and Director of the International Conference Series Spinoza à Paris 8.

• About this BookAbout the Authors AcknowledgementsAbbreviations and CitationsGeneral IntroductionPART I: METAPHYSICS1. Spinoza’s Metaphysics Revisited, Edwin Curley (University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA)A Response: On Spinoza, Possible Worlds, and Pantheism, Pierre-François Moreau (ENS Lyon, France)2. The Elusiveness of the One and the Many in Spinoza: Substance, Attribute, and Mode, Michael Della Rocca (Yale University, USA)A Response: In What Way It Exists, Pascal Sévérac (Université Paris-Est Créteil, France)3. The Earliest Draft of Spinoza’s Ethics, Yitzhak Y. Melamed (Johns Hopkins University, USA)A Response: Accidents and Modifications: An Additional Note on Axioms 1 and 2 in Appendix 1 of the Short Treatise, Mogens Lærke (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)4. Metaphysical Rationalism, Martin Lin (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA)A Response: Leibniz’s Principle of (Sufficient) Reason and Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles, Valérie Debuiche (Université d’Aix-Marseille, France)5. The Transformation of Relations in Spinoza’s Metaphysics, Simon B. Duffy (Yale-NUS College, Singapore)A Response: Essence, Variations in Power, and “Becoming Other” in Spinoza, Céline Hervet (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France)PART II: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND6. Spinoza’s Two Claims About the Mind-Body Relation, Alison Peterman (University of Rochester, USA)A Response: A Puzzle in Spinoza’s Views on the Mind-Body Problem, Jack Stetter (Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France)7. Spinoza’s True Ideas: Suggestive Convergences, Knox Peden (Australian National University, Australia)A Response: Althusser, Spinoza, and the Specter of the Cartesian Subject, Pascale Gillot (Université de Tours François Rabelais, France)8. Spinoza on Beings of Reason [Entia Rationis] and the Analogical Imagination, Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington, USA)A Response: Analogia and Ens Rationis, Jacqueline Lagrée (Université de Rennes, France)PART III: MORAL PHILOSOPHY9. Spinoza on Good and Bad, Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin Madison, USA)A Response: The Knowledge of Good and Bad, Lorenzo Vinciguerra (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, USA)10. Generosity as Freedom in Spinoza’s Ethics, Hasana Sharp (McGill University, Canada)A Response: A Generous Reading, Ariel Suhamy (Collège de France, France)PART IV: POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY11. Anthropomorphism, Teleology and Superstition: The Politics of Obedience in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Daniel Garber (Princeton University, USA)A Response: Logic of the Pious, Logic of the Superstitious, Chantal Jaquet (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)12. Individual and Community and Its American Legacy, Steve Barbone (San Diego State University, USA)A Response: Between Matheron and Spinoza, Something Happens…, Laurent Bove (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, France)13. Spinoza’s Formulation of the Radical Enlightenment’s Two Foundational Concepts: How Much Did He Owe to the Dutch Golden Age Political-Theological Context?, Jonathan Israel (Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, USA)A Response: Spinoza’s Paradoxical Radicalism, Charles Ramond (Université Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis, France)BibliographyIndex LocorumIndex Nominum

No early modern philosopher proves as vital today as Spinoza. He is an indispensable figure for contemporary philosophers working in very different traditions on very different questions. The papers brought together in this volume show, clearly and excitingly, why Spinoza continues to matter. Jack Stetter and Charles Ramond have, like Spinoza himself, deftly bridged the gap between different philosophical worlds to bring together the very best scholars of the present day who not only interpret Spinoza, but also live out his legacy. This is an eye-opening and a rare volume, whose contributions have the collective power to show us much about the meaning of Spinoza's contribution to philosophy in the broadest sense.