Putting together this work took some time and effort, and our debts are many. We are exceptionally lucky to have had the support of Colleen Coalter and Helen Saunders, our managing editors at Bloomsbury. Their encouragement and patience made all the difference. Rebecca Holland, Giles Herman, Vinita Irudayaraj, and all other members of their respective teams also deserve special thanks, as do the authors of the two helpful Reader's Reports that we received, whoever they are. We thank Conall Cash, Conrad Bongard Hamilton, and Firmin Havugimana for their beneficent translation work. Naturally, we also must thank each and every one of our contributing authors, all of whom worked with us for nearly four years, from the time we began planning a conference that was ultimately held in Paris in June 2016, the Colloque Spinoza France États-Unis, to the time of publication. That conference, jointly hosted at the Université Paris 8, in the framework of the Séminaire Spinoza à Paris 8, and at the Université Paris 1, was made possible thanks to Chantal Jaquet, Pierre-François Moreau, and Pascal Sévérac, along with their respective institutions. We thank our colleagues at the Université Paris 8, especially Fabienne Brugère and Danielle Tartakowsky, for their institutional support in hosting Spinoza France États-Unis. Carmen Alves, Jean-Marc Bourdin, Mathieu Corteel, Mario Donoso, Kazumasu Hosoda, Giustino de Michele, Alejandro Orozco-Hidalgo, Gabriel Rezende da Souza Pinto, and Behrang Pourhosseini also deserve special thanks for their help in running that conference and in keeping the Séminaire Spinoza à Paris 8 in good shape ever since. Since the time of Spinoza France États-Unis, the chapters have been substantially revised and are now outstanding contributions to the secondary literature. Our hope is that this collection points to the inherent fecundity of bringing together distinct traditions in philosophical scholarship, and that it plays a part in changing Spinoza studies, so that Spinoza’s reception becomes, ultimately, neither American nor French in character, but truly international.