Table of Contents

Introduction: Between Hegel and Spinoza The Editors Section I: The Individual and Transindividuality between Ontology and Politics The Misunderstanding of the Mode. Spinoza in Hegel's Science of Logic (1812-1816) Vittorio Morfino "Desire is Man's Very Essence": Spinoza and Hegel as Philosophers of Transindividuality Jason Read The Problem of the Beginning in Political Philosophy: Spinoza After Hegel Andre Santos Campos Section II: Hegel's Spinoza Hegel, sive Spinoza: Hegel as his own True Other Warren Montag Hegel's Treatment of Spinoza: Its Scope and Its Limits Vance Maxwell Hegel's Reconciliation with Spinoza John McCumber Section III: The Psychic Life of Negation Affirmative Pathology: Spinoza and Hegel on Illness and Self-Repair Christopher Lauer Of Suicide and Falling Stones: Finitude, Contingency, and Corporeal Vulnerability in (Judith Butler's) Spinoza Gordon Hull Thinking the Space of the Subject between Hegel and Spinoza Caroline Williams Section IV: Judaism Beyond Hegel and Spinoza The Paradox of a Perfect Democracy: From Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise to Marx's Critique of Ideology Idit Dobbs-Weinstein Spinoza, Hegel, and Adorno on Judaism and History Jeffrey A. Bernstein

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An original collection of essays that presents a wide-ranging reassessment of the relationship between Hegel and Spinoza, the two major alternatives to mainstream Enlightenment thought.

About the Author

Hasana Sharp is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at McGill University, Quebec, Canada. She is author of Spinoza and the Politics of Renaturalization (University of Chicago, 2011).

Jason E. Smith is Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies in Art at the Art Center College of Design, California, USA.