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 Book
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Citations
General Introduction

PART I: METAPHYSICS
1. 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 MIND
6. 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 PHILOSOPHY
9. 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 PHILOSOPHY
11. 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)

Bibliography
Index Locorum
Index Nominum