"Alexandre Matheron is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the 20th century. These 20 essays, translated into English for the first time, focus on ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries."--Publisher description.

• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Abbreviations
• Notes on Translation and Acknowledgements
• A Revolutionary Beatitude: Alexandre Matheron’s Spinozism
• PART I Spinoza on Ontology and Knowledge
• 1 Politics, ontology and knowledge in spinoza Idea, Idea of the Idea and Certainty in the Tractatus
• 2 Politics, ontology and knowledge in spinoza Essence, Existence and Power in Part I of the Ethics:
• 3 Physics and Ontology in Spinoza: The Enigmatic Response to Tschirnhaus
• 4 The Year 1663 and the Spinozist Identity of Being and Power: Hypothesis on a Development
• 5 Eternal Life and the Body According to Spinoza
• 6 Intellectual Love of God, Eternal Part of the amor erga Deum
• PART II Spinoza on Politics and Ethics
• 7 State and Morality According to Spinoza
• 8 Ethics and Politics in Spinoza (Remarks on the Role of Ethics IV, 37 Scholium 2)
• 9 Indignation and the Conatus of the Spinozist State
• 10 Passions and Institutions According to Spinoza
• 11 The Problem of Spinoza’s Evolution: From the Theologico-Political Treatise to the Political Treat
• 12 Is the state an individual in spinoza’s sense? Is the State, According to Spinoza, an Individual
• 13 The Ontological Status of Scripture and the Spinozist Doctrine of Individuality
• 14 Spinoza and Power
• 15 Spinoza and Property
• 16 Spinoza and Sexuality
• 17 Women and Servants in Spinozist Democracy
• 18 The ‘Right of the Stronger’: Hobbes contra Spinoza
• 19 The Theoretical Function of Democracy in Spinoza and Hobbes
• 20 Spinoza and the Breakdown of Thomist Politics: Machiavellianism and Utopia
• Appendix 1: Interview with Laurent Bove and Pierre-François Moreau
• Appendix 2: Chronology of Works by Matheron
• Works Cited
• Index