Spinoza, the Transindividual

Spinoza, the Transindividual

Author: Etienne Balibar

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-07-31

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1474454305

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Etienne 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.


Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual

Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual

Author: Muriel Combes

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0262537478

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An accessible yet rigorous introduction to the influential French philosopher Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation. Gilbert Simondon (1924–1989), one of the most influential contemporary French philosophers, published only three works: L'individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (The individual and its physico-biological genesis, 1964) and L'individuation psychique et collective (Psychic and collective individuation, 1989), both drawn from his doctoral thesis, and Du mode d'existence des objets techniques (On the mode of existence of technical objects, 1958). It is this last work that brought Simondon into the public eye; as a consequence, he has been considered a “thinker of technics” and cited often in pedagogical reports on teaching technology. Yet Simondon was a philosopher whose ambitions lay in an in-depth renewal of ontology as a process of individuation—that is, how individuals come into being, persist, and transform. In this accessible yet rigorous introduction to Simondon's work, Muriel Combes helps to bridge the gap between Simondon's account of technics and his philosophy of individuation. Some thinkers have found inspiration in Simondon's philosophy of individuation, notably Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. Combes's account, first published in French in 1999, is one of the only studies of Simondon to appear in English. Combes breaks new ground, exploring an ethics and politics adequate to Simondon's hypothesis of preindividual being, considering through the lens of transindividual philosophy what form a nonservile relation to technology might take today. Her book is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand Simondon's work.


The Politics of Transindividuality

The Politics of Transindividuality

Author: Jason Read

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 9004305157

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The Politics of Transindividuality re-examines social relations and subjectivity through the concept of transindividuality. Transindividuality is understood as the mutual constitution of individuality and collectivity, and as such it intersects with politics and economics, philosophical speculation and political practice. While the term transindividuality is drawn from the work of Gilbert Simondon, this book views it broadly, examining such canonical figures as Spinoza, Hegel, and Marx, as well as contemporary debates involving Etienne Balibar, Bernard Stiegler, and Paolo Virno. Through these intersecting aspects and interpretations of transindividuality the book proposes to examine anew the intersection of politics and economics through their mutual constitution of affects, imagination, and subjectivity.


Spinoza Beyond Philosophy

Spinoza Beyond Philosophy

Author: Beth Lord

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2015-04-08

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0748656073

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This book of 10 engaging and original essays brings Spinoza outside the realm of academic philosophy, and presents him as a thinker who is relevant to contemporary problems and questions across a variety of disciplines.


Spinoza and Politics

Spinoza and Politics

Author: Etienne Balibar

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2008-01-17

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1844672050

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With Hobbes and Locke, Spinoza is arguably one of the most important political philosophers of the modern era, a premier theoretician of democracy and mass politics. In this revised and augmented English translation of his 1985 classic, Spinoza et la Politique, Etienne Balibar presents a synoptic account of Spinoza’s major works, admirably demonstrating relevance to his contemporary political life. Balibar carefully situates Spinoza’s major treatises in the period in which they were written. In successive chapters, he examines the political situation in the United Provinces during Spinoza’s lifetime, Spinoza’s own religious and ideological associations, the concept of democracy developed in the Theologico-Political Treatise, the theory of the state advanced in the Political Treatise and the anthropological basis for politics established in the Ethics.


Hegel Or Spinoza

Hegel Or Spinoza

Author: Pierre Macherey

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published:

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1452933103

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The first English-language translation of a classic work of French philosophy


Spinoza, the Epicurean

Spinoza, the Epicurean

Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-05-28

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1474476074

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By radically re-reading the 'Theological Political Treatise', Dimitris Vardoulakis argues that Spinoza's Epicurean influence has profound implications for his conception of politics and ontology. This reconsideration of Spinoza's political project, set within a historical context, lays the ground for an alternative genealogy of materialism.


Spinoza’s Ethics of Interpretation

Spinoza’s Ethics of Interpretation

Author: Jordan Nusbaum

Publisher: Ethics International Press

Published: 2023-11-30

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1804412007

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This book examines Spinoza's ontological argument and introduces the concept of "paradoxical singularity." It explores the ways in which Spinoza’s ontology establishes a framework in which singular things are, paradoxically, differentiated through intersecting causes. The book argues that Spinoza's ontological argument functions at once as a philosophical, religious, and political ethos in which interpretation is inseparable from cooperation. This emphasizes a connection between the productions of knowledge (interpretation) and the way of life (ethos) that those productions involve and express. Recommended for scholars interested in Spinoza's influence on post-structuralism, trans-individuality, and the history of secular religious thought.


Spinoza

Spinoza

Author: Etienne Balibar

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9789051665741

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Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza

Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza

Author: Alexandre Matheron

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-03-18

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 1474440126

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"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.