Table of Contents

Contents

Translator’s Introduction: A Dialectics of Encounter
Translator’s Note and Acknowledgments

Preface to the Second Edition
The Alternative

1. Hegel Reads Spinoza
2. More Geometrico
3. The Problem of the Attributes
4. Omnis Determinato est Negatio

Abbreviations
Notes
Index

About the Author

Pierre Macherey is professor emeritus at Universite Lille Nord de France.

Susan M. Ruddick is associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

"Pierre Macherey not only demonstrates how Hegel misread Spinoza, but also offers against the backdrop of the Hegelian dialectic an exciting and original interpretation of Spinoza’s thought. The alternative-Hegel or Spinoza-thus becomes a powerful and significant dividing line for politics and thought. And Macherey forces you to choose which side you are on." -Michael Hardt, coauthor of Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth "Hegel or Spinoza is a classic. Both Spinoza and Hegel emerge from Macherey’s work in nearly unrecognizable forms, allowing us to read them in unprecedented ways." -Warren Montag, author of Bodies, Masses, Power: Spinoza and His Contemporaries