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Alexandre Matheron has worked and written substantially on Spinoza since the publication of his influential 1969 masterpiece 'Individu et communauté chez Spinoza' (Éditions de Minuit) and he is considered one of the most important interpreters of Spinoza's philosophy in the 20th century. The 20 essays gathered here focus on the themes of ontology, knowledge, politics and ethics in Spinoza, his predecessors and his contemporaries. This is a crucial collection for anyone seeking to understand 20th-century continental Spinozism.

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"For three generations now, in France and abroad, Alexandre Matheron has been the absolute master of Spinozistic research and study. He knows every line, he has a solution for every problem, he opens avenues for philosophical imagination behind every proposition. In this comprehensive collection of his essays, the first to appear in English, readers will learn with joy how to combine structural interpretation, accurate contextualization, and relevance of ""eternal"" wisdom for the understanding of the present.-- ""Etienne Balibar, author of Spinoza and Politics"" If someone wants to read Spinoza by searching for the ontological foundations of social structures and human actions, whether to understand the contemporary world we live in, or simply to amplify the scope and intensity of their own intuitive science, it would be wise to consider the articles of this book and understand how Matheron originally formulated the questions. This collection is a most welcome translation into English.--Andre Menezes Rocha, University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres ""Philosophy in Review"" The English translation of this remarkable set of essays truly marks a momentous event in the International Spinoza Studies calendar. Alexandre Matheron's originality, perspicacity, and erudition has long been celebrated by those who have had access to his outstanding scholarship. With the publication of this volume that celebration can be widely shared and his research into Spinoza's philosophy can receive the international accolades it so richly deserves.-- ""Moira Gatens, The University of Sydney"" Alexandre Matheron is considered in France as the master of Spinoza studies. His structural analyses show how the ontology of power underlies knowledge, the state, sexuality and blessedness. He masterfully confronts the system with Thomas Aquinas, Thomas More's Utopia, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Descartes.-- ""Pierre-Fran�ois Moreau, Professeur � l'�cole Normale Sup�rieure de Lyon"""

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Alexandre Matheron is former Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud and the CNRS. His key works include The Individual and Community in Spinoza (Éditions de Minuit, 1968), Christ and the Salvation of the Ignorants in Spinoza (Éditions Aubier-Montaigne, 1971) and Anthropology and Politics in the 17th Century (Vrin, 1985). Filippo Del Lucchese is Professor in History of Political Thought at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna; Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, and Chair at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris. He is the author of Monstrosity and Philosophy: Radical Otherness in Greek and Latin Culture (Edinburgh University Press, 2019), The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and Conflict, Power and Multitude in Machiavelli and Spinoza (Continuum Press, 2009). David Maruzzella received his MA in philosophie contemporaine from the École normale supérieure (Rue d'Ulm) and is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at DePaul University. Gil Morejón teaches at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on early modern metaphysics and political theory. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and co-edited and co-translated Alexandre Matheron's Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) David Maruzzella received his MA in philosophie contemporaine from the École normale supérieure (Rue d'Ulm) and is currently a PhD candidate in Philosophy at DePaul University. Gil Morejón teaches at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on early modern metaphysics and political theory. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and co-edited and co-translated Alexandre Matheron's Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Edinburgh University Press, 2020)

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