Spinoza, the Transindividual

This collection is a rich, fascinating and important one ... [It] marks an important new direction in Spinoza studies and puts the problem of individuality and relationality squarely before us. Well translated, it will be of service to scholars of Balibar and of Spinoza for many years to come. -- Dan Taylor, Open University * Marx and Philosophy Review of Books *
Unlike other interpretations of Spinoza which tend to focus on either Spinoza’s ontology or politics but not on both, Balibar’s reading is a sustained, vibrant and richly rewarding endeavor to think – together with Spinoza – ontology through politics and politics through ontology. -- Michael Della Rocca, Yale University
Étienne Balibar’s concept of transindividuality opens bold new ways to theorise citizens, society, and the state and their reciprocal constitution through desire along complex lines of race, class and nation. Inspired by Althusser, Marx, Freud and, above all, Spinoza, these brilliant essays display a unique and powerfully engaged approach to our political present. -- Moira Gatens, University of Sydney
This collection provides a privileged entry point into Balibar’s theoretical laboratory. From the 'structural causality' of Reading Capital to the 'ontology of relations' of The Philosophy of Marx and the 'transindividual' of his mature phase, one can grasp the development of a problematic for which Spinoza’s thought is no longer a detour but a main reference for understanding the project of equaliberty. -- Vittorio Morfino, University of Milan-Bicocca
A fascinating collection of essays on the foundations of Spinoza’s ontology and politics, Balibar’s Spinoza, the Transindividual offers an incisive and novel understanding of Spinoza’s critique of humanism. This is a work that is posed to become a philosophical classic. -- Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Johns Hopkins University