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.

• Cover
• Contents
• Notes on Translation
  • Mark G. E. Kelly
• The Unity of Transindividuality: An Examination of Balibar’s Philosophical Practice
  • Jason Read
• Spinoza, the Transindividual
• 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