Spinoza, the Transindividual / / Etienne Balibar, Mark G. E. Kelly.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Balibar, Etienne,; Kelly, Mark G. E.,
• MitwirkendeR: Kelly, Mark G. E.,; Read, Jason,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Incitements : INCI
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 1 B/W line art

One of the most important books on Spinoza to appear in the last 30 years, written by one of the foremost living French philosophers Includes a rare engagement by Balibar with psychoanalysis and Freud’s social thought Offers new readings of Spinoza, a canonical figure in the history of philosophy Intervenes in a growing discourse around the notion of transindividuality Étienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work Spinoza and Politics with this exploration of Spinoza’s ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to the more recent French thinker Gilbert Simondon’s concept of the transindividual.Presenting a crucial development in his thought, Balibar takes the concept of transindividuality beyond Spinoza to show it at work at both the individual and the collective level.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Translation -- The Unity of Transindividuality: An Examination of Balibar’s Philosophical Practice -- 1 Individuality, Causality, Substance: Reflections on Spinoza’s Ontology -- 2 Individuality and Transindividuality in Spinoza -- 3 Potentia multitudinis, quae una veluti mente ducitur -- 4 Philosophies of the Transindividual: Spinoza, Marx, Freud -- Select Bibliography -- Index