Table of Contents

Contents

Preface Nancy Tuana

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations and Notes on Translations

1. Introduction: Through Spinoza’s “Looking Glass”

  Moira Gatens

2. Dominance and Difference: A Spinozistic Alternative to the Distinction Between “Sex” and “Gender”

  Genevieve Lloyd

3. Autonomy and the Relational Individual: Spinoza and Feminism

  Aurelia Armstrong

4. Spinoza on the Pathos of Idolatrous Love and the Hilarity of True Love

  Amelie Rorty

5. Spinoza and Sexuality

  Alexandre Matheron

6. Reason, Sexuality, and the Self in Spinoza

  David West

7. What Spinoza Can Teach Us About Embodying and Naturalizing Ethics

  Heidi Morrison Ravven

8. Adam and the Serpent: Everyman and the Imagination

  Paola Grassi

9. The Envelope: A Reading of Spinoza’s Ethics, “Of God”

  Luce Irigaray

10. Re-reading Irigaray’s Spinoza

  Sarah Donovan

11. The Politics of the Imagination

  Moira Gatens

12. Law and Sovereignty in Spinoza’s Politics

  Susan James

Further Reading

List of Contributors

Index

About the Author

Moira Gatens is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney in Australia. Among her previous books is Collective Imaginings: Spinoza, Past and Present (1999).

Reviews

"This volume makes a significant contribution, both to Spinoza studies and to feminist theory. This stimulating collection of essays offers readers in both fields some provocative, and sometimes controversial, new interpretations of the classic rationalist philosopher." - Michael Rosenthal, University of Washington"