A. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German and Director of the Critical Theory Program, at Macalester College, and honorary adjunct professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.Dimitris Vardoulakis is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

• Reference Guide and List of AbbreviationsPrefaceA. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris VardoulakisChapter 1: Equality and Power: Spinoza’s Reformulation of the Aristotelian Tradition of EgalitarianismDimitris VardoulakisChapter 2: Spinoza’s Ethics and Politics of Freedom: Active and Passive PowerAurelia Armstrong Chapter 3: Grammars of Conatus: or, On the Primacy of Resistance in Spinoza, Foucault, and DeleuzeCesare CasarinoChapter 4: Beyond Legitimacy: The State as an Imaginary Entity in Spinoza’s Political OntologyJuan Domingo Sánchez EstopChapter 5: The Cold Quietness of the Stars: Proof, Rhetoric, and the Authority of Reason in the EthicsJoseph HughesChapter 6: Spinoza: A Different Power to ActAntonio NegriChapter 7: Commanding the Body: The Language of Subjection in Ethics III, P2SWarren MontagChapter 8: Interrupting the System: Spinoza and Maroon ThoughtJames Edward Ford IIIChapter 9: Spinoza’s Biopolitics: Commodification of Substance, and Secular ImmortalityA. Kiarina KordelaBibliographyIndex

The two volumes of Spinoza's Authority have a great deal to offer students and working scholars alike. They contribute to the continental tradition of the interpretation of Spinoza, and they also describe Spinozism as an approach to current social and political issues.