Table of Contents

About this Book

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Citations

General Introduction

Part I    Metaphysics

1    Spinoza’s Metaphysics Revisited

Edwin Curley

A Response: On Spinoza, Possible Worlds, and Pantheism

Pierre-François Moreau

2    The Elusiveness of the One and the Many in Spinoza: Substance, Attribute, and Mode

Michael Della Rocca

A Response: In What Way It Exists

Pascal Sévérac

3    The Earliest Draft of Spinoza’s Ethics

Yitzhak Y. Melamed

A Response: Accidents and Modifications: An Additional Note on Axioms 1 and 2 in Appendix 1 of the Short Treatise

Mogens Lærke

4    Metaphysical Rationalism

Martin Lin

A Response: Leibniz’s Principle of (Sufficient) Reason and Principle of Identity of Indiscernibles

Valérie Debuiche

5    The Transformation of Relations in Spinoza’s Metaphysics

Simon B. Duffy

A Response: Essence, Variations in Power, and “Becoming Other” in Spinoza

Céline Hervet

Part II    Philosophy of Mind

6    Spinoza’s Two Claims about the Mind-Body Relation

Alison Peterman

A Response: A Puzzle in Spinoza’s Views on the Mind-Body Problem

Jack Stetter

7    Spinoza’s True Ideas: Suggestive Convergences

Knox Peden

A Response: Althusser, Spinoza, and the Specter of the Cartesian Subject

Pascale Gillot

8    Spinoza on Beings of Reason [Entia Rationis] and the Analogical Imagination

Michael A. Rosenthal

A Response: Analogia and Ens Rationis

Jacqueline Lagrée

Part III    Moral Philosophy

9    Spinoza on Good and Bad

Steven Nadler

A Response: The Knowledge of Good and Bad

Lorenzo Vinciguerra

10  Generosity as Freedom in Spinoza’s Ethics

Hasana Sharp

A Response: A Generous Reading

Ariel Suhamy

Part IV    Political Philosophy

11  Anthropomorphism, Teleology, and Superstition: The Politics of Obedience in Spinoza’s Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

Daniel Garber

A Response: Logic of the Superstitious, Logic of the Pious

Chantal Jaquet

12  Individual and Community and its American Legacy

Steven Barbone

A Response: Between Matheron and Spinoza, Something Happens …

Laurent Bove

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

A Response: Spinoza’s Paradoxical Radicalism

Charles Ramond

Bibliography

Index Locorum

Index Nominum