Surplus

A. Kiarina Kordela is Associate Professor of German Studies at Macalester College.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Context Postmodern "Neo-Spinozism"Scientific "Neo-Spinozism" and HegelConsensual, Evolutionist "Modern Spinozism"After the ContexPart I. Secular Causality and Its Enjoyment From the First Cause to Transference Causes or Reasons?Science of Differential SubstanceSecular Ontology: Differential (Non-)Substance and the End of (Anti-)PlatonismWherein Consists the Break of Secular Modernity?History of Differential (Non-)SubstanceEthics of Differential (Non-)SubstanceFrom Libido to EnjoymentA History of God in Secular Reason (From Philosophy to Non-Anti-Philosophy)God in (or out of?) Cultural StudiesThe Break of Extimacy(Burning with) EnjoymentGod, Nobody, or Mr. Nobody?Part II. Kant with Marx: Surplus, Or, Gaze Commodity Fetishism: Toward an Epistemo-/Ontology of SurplusThe Rule of Representation and Sex (From Kant's Rule of Reason to Marx's Rule of Exchange-Value)Set Theory and Being (Marx's Materialist Metaphysics)From Absolute Knowledge to the GazeIs It Possible Not to Hate Representation? (Another Look at Empire)In Lieu of an Epilogue Another Look at Ethics, Or, Commodity and the GazeNotes Cited Works Index

"Kordela masterfully shows how Spinoza's thought jibes with the insights of psychoanalysis, especially concerning the original cause and the final cause. This book has actually forced me to reevaluate my own thinking about Spinoza and to realize that I have wrongly been associating Spinoza with the misguided neo-Spinozist reading of him." — Todd McGowan, author of The Real Gaze: Film Theory after Lacan"From the very beginning, this book is of such intellectual power that it is capable of severe criticism of some of the most potent thinkers in the field—Zðizûek and Badiou, for example—while at the same time showing what is productive in them. Kordela has learned from them; they too have much to learn from her." — Thomas Pepper, author of Singularities: Extremes of Theory in the Twentieth Century