Spinoza in 21st-Century American and French Philosophy : Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy / edited by Jack Stetter and Charles Ramond.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Spinoza's metaphysics revisited / Edwin Curley -- A response to Edwin Curley / Pierre-François Moreau -- The elusiveness of the one and the many in Spinoza: substance, attribute, and mode / Michael Della Rocca -- In what way it exists / Pascal Sévérac -- The earliest draft of Spinoza's ethics / Yitzhak Y. Melamed -- Accidents and modifications: an additional note on Axioms 1 and 2 in Appendix 1 of the short treatise / Mogens Lærke -- Metaphysical rationalism / Martin Lin -- Leibniz's principle of (sufficient) reason and principle of identity of indiscernibles / Valérie Debuiche -- The transformation of relations in Spinoza's metaphysics / Simon B. Duffy -- Essence, variations in power, and becoming other in Spinoza / Céline Hervet -- Spinoza's two claims about the mind-body relation / Alison Peterman -- The gap between the idea for the body and the idea of the body / Jack Stetter -- Spinoza's true ideas: suggestive convergences / Knox Peden -- Althusser, Spinoza, and the specter of the Cartesian subject / Pascale Gillot -- Spinoza on beings of reason [entia rationis] and the analogical imagination / Michael A. Rosenthal -- Analogia and ens rationis / Jacqueline Lagrée -- Spinoza on good and bad / Steven Nadler -- The knowledge of good and bad / Lorenzo Vinciguerra -- Generosity as freedom in Spinoza's ethics / Hasana Sharp -- A generous reading / Ariel Suhamy -- Anthropomorphism, teleology and superstition: the politics of obedience in Spinoza's tractatus theologico-politicus / Daniel Garber -- Logic of the pious, logic of the superstitious / Chantal Jacquet -- Individual and community and its American legacy / Steve Barbone -- Between Matheron and Spinoza, something happens / Laurent Bove -- 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 -- Spinoza's paradoxical radicalism / Charles Ramond.

"Over the last few decades, Spinoza scholarship has developed in the United States, providing new perspectives on the work of this major philosopher. Spinoza in 21st-Century American and French Philosophy unites for the first time French and American scholars in conversation with each other and illustrates the fecundity of bringing together analytic and Continental scholarly traditions. Spinoza in 21st-Century American and French Philosophy gives readers a unique opportunity to discover the most consequential and sophisticated aspects of American and French Spinoza research today. Featuring chapters by American scholars with French experts responding to these, the book is structured according to the themes of Spinoza's philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy and political philosophy. The contributions consider the full range of his work, with chapters addressing the Ethics, his ideas on individuals and community, and the nature of embodiment, among other topics"-- Provided by publisher.