Notes on Contributors Jeffrey Bell is a Professor of Philosophy at contemporaines (, CNRS Editions, 2007), C Southeastern Louisiana University. Bell works in Althusser et la psychanalyse (Paris, Presses R the area of contemporary European philosophy, Universitaires de , 2009), La question du I with an emphasis on the work of Gilles Deleuze. sujet. Descartes et Wittgenstein (Paris, CNRS S He has authored and edited several books, Editions, 2020). I including The Problem of Difference, Philosophy S at the Edge of Chaos, Deleuze’s Hume, and Chantal Jaquet is Professor at the Université Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, among Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specialist in the & others. Bell is currently at work on two books, on history of Early Modern Philosophy (mainly metaphysics and politics, that draws from the Spinoza and Bacon) in the philosophy of the C resources of both the analytic and continental body (particularly the sense of smell) in social R traditions in philosophy. philosophy (class-passing). She defended a I PhD titled “Sub specie aeternitatis, étude des T Marilena Chaui is a professor in the concepts de temps, durée et éternité chez I Department of Philosophy at the University of Spinoza” at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne Q São Paulo (Brazil) and, in 2019, received the in 1994. For the past 20 years, Director of an U title of Professor Emeritus of the Faculty of international research seminar on Spinoza at E Philosophy. She is Doctor Honoris Causa by the the Sorbonne; Editor of the “Les Anciens et les Université de Paris VIII and by the Universidad Modernes” collection, published by Éditions / Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina). Her main Classiques Garnier. Main Publications : Spinoza research on Spinoza and contemporary issues ou la Prudence, Paris, Editions Quintette, 1997 ; Volume 8 of democracy. She coordinates the Brazilian Sub specie aeternitatis, étude des concepts de Issue 1 Research Group on Spinoza Studies. Chaui has temps, durée et éternité chez Spinoza, published received received the prize for best Brazilian by Kimé Editions (1997) 2sd ed., Classiques book of essays for he book A nervura do Real. Garnier, 2015 ; L’unité du corps et de l’esprit. Imanência e liberdade em Espinosa and for the Affects, actions passions chez Spinoza, PUF, book Cultura e democracia. She was Secretary of 2004, 2015 (translated in Portugese, Spanish, Culture of the city of São Paulo in the Workers' Italian and English); Les expressions de la Party Workers' Party government (1989-1992). puissance d’agir chez Spinoza, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2005; Philosophie de l’odorat, PUF, Miguel de Beistegui is ICREA Research 2010 (translated in Portugese, Japanese, talian); Professor in the department of Political and Bacon et la promotion des savoirs, PUF, 2010; Social Sciences at the University of Pompeu Les transclasses ou la non reproduction, PUF, Fabra, and Honorary Professor of Philosophy 2014 (translated in German); Spinoza à l’œuvre, at the University of Warwick. His most recent Publications de la Sorbonne 2017, Philosophie du books include a trilogy on the topic of desire: The kôdô, l’esthétique japonaise des fragrances, Paris, Government of Desire: A Genealogy of the Liberal Vrin 2018. Subject (Chicago University Press, 2018); Lacan: A Genealogy (Bloomsbury, 2021); and L'élan du Gregg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of désir: pour une éthique de la volupté (Éditions Humanities, Syracuse University, U.S.A. du Seuil, 2021). Thought Under Threat: On He is author of many works in contemporary Superstition, Spite, and Stupidity (Chicago philosophy; most recently, The Elements of University Press, 2021) will also come out in 2021. Foucault (University of Minnesota Press, 2020), The People are Missing: Minor Literature Michael Della Rocca is Andrew Downey Orrick Today (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He and Towards a Geopolitical Image of Thought is the author of The Parmenidean Ascent (Oxford (Edinburgh University Press, 2021). 2020) and of numerous papers in early modern philosophy and in contemporary metaphysics. Pierre Macherey, born in 1938, has taught philosophy in Paris and in Lille, after working Mariana Gainza is a sociologist (University with Louis Althusser. His research was of Buenos Aires) and PhD in Philosophy from mainly focused on the thought of Spinoza, the University of São Paulo, Brazil. CONICET the philosophical activity of the nineteenth researcher, and teacher in the Faculty of Social and twentieth centuries in France and on the Sciences, UBA. relations between philosophy and literature. Recent publications: “Marx 1845: les “Thèses” Pascale Gillot is associate professor of sur Feuerbach” (éd. Amsterdam, Paris, 2008), philosophy at the University of , France. “Petits riens - Ornières et dérives du quotidian” Her researches are concerned with the (éd. du Bord de l’eau, , 2009), “La parole different models of mind and subjectivity, from universitaire” (éd. La Fabrique, Paris, 2011), “De early-modern philosophy to contemporary l’utopie!” (éd. De l’Incidence, 2011), “Etudes philosophy. She has published L’esprit. Figures de philosophie “française” de Sieyès à Barni”

651 Notes on Contributors (Publications de la Sorbonne, Paris, 2013), “Le Christopher Norris is Emeritus Professor in C sujet des norms” (éd. Amsterdam, Paris, 2014), Philosophy at Cardiff University. In his early R “S’orienter” (éd. Kimé, Paris, 2017). career he taught English Literature, then I moved to Philosophy via literary theory, and S Yitzhak Y. Melamed is the Charlotte has now moved back in the direction of creative I Bloomberg Professor of Philosophy at Johns writing. He is the author of more than thirty S Hopkins University. He works on Early Modern books on aspects of philosophy, literature, the Philosophy, German Idealism, Medieval history of ideas, and music. More recently he & Philosophy, and some issues in contemporary has turned to writing poetry in various genres, metaphysics (time, mereology, and trope theory), including – unusually – that of the philosophical C and is the author of Spinoza’s Metaphysics: verse-essay. He has published several R Substance and Thought (Oxford University Press, collections of poems including The Cardinal’s I 2013). Dog, For the Tempus-Fugitives, The Matter of T Rhyme, A Partial Truth, and Socrates at Verse. I Warren Montag is the Brown Family Q Professor of Literature at Occidental College Charles Ramond is University Professor in U in Los Angeles. His most recent books include the Department of Philosophy at the University E Althusser and His Contemporaries (2013) and of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis. Latest The Other Adam Smith (2014). Montag is also the publications: Sentiment d´Injustice et Chanson / editor of Décalages, a journal on Althusser and Populaire (with Jeanne PROUST), Sampzon: his circle, and the translator of Étienne Balibar’s Delatour France (“Musique et Philosophie” Volume 8 Identity and Difference: John Locke and the Collection), 2017; Derrida – Une philosophie de Issue 1 Invention of Consciousness (2013). l’écriture, Paris : Ellipses (Collection « Aimer les philosophes »), 2018 ; Jacques Rancière Pierre-François Moreau is a professor at the – L’égalité des intelligences, Paris : Belin, 2019 ; ENS in . His publications include: Spinoza. Spinoza in Twenty-First-Century American and L'expérience et l'éternité (Puf, 1994); (with French Philosophy – Metaphysics, Philosophy Ninon Grangé and Frédéric Ramel): Günther of Mind, Moral and Political Philosophy, Anders et la fin des mondes, Classiques Edited by Jack Stetter and Charles Ramond, Garnier, 2020; (with Matteo Vincenzo d’Alfonso) London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ; 24 Études : Phénoménologie et marxisme, ENS Éditions, de philosophie du langage ordinaire, Limoges : 2021; (with Sonja Lavaert) Spinoza et la politique Lambert Lucas, 2021. de la multitude, Kimé, 2021 Jason Read is Professor of Philosophy at the Vittorio Morfino is full professor of History of University of Southern Maine. He is the author Philosophy at the University of Milan-Bicocca, of The Micro-Politics of Capital: Marx and the director of the master in Critical Theory of the Prehistory of the Present (SUNY 2003) and The Society, and is Directeur de Programme at the Politics of Transindividuality (Brill 2016/Haymarket Collège International de Philosohie. He has 2017) and a forthcoming collection of essays, The been visiting professor at the Universidade de Production of Subjectivity: Between Marxism São Paulo, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon- and Post-Structuralism to be published by Brill Sorbonne, the Université Bordeaux-Montaigne and Haymarket. He blogs on popular culture, and the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba. He philosophy, and politics at unemployednegativity. is the author of Il tempo e l’occasione. L’incontro com. He is currently writing a book provisionally Spinoza Machiavelli (Milano, 2002, Paris, 2012), titled The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Incursioni spinoziste (Milano, 2002), Il tempo Ideology and Economy of Work. della moltitudine (Roma, 2005, Paris, 2010, Madrid, 2013, Santiago, 2015), Plural Temporality. Natalia Romé is a chair Professor in Social Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Sciences at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Spinoza and Althusser (Leiden, 2014) e Genealogia where she is also the Director of the Master di un pregiudizio. L’immagine di Spinoza in in Communication and Culture Studies. Germania da Leibniz a Marx (Hildesheim 2016) She is Senior Researcher in Instituto de He is an editor of "Quaderni materialisti" and Investigaciones Gino Germani, Universidad "Décalages. An Althusserian Journal». de Buenos Aires, where she co-coordinates the Program of Critical Studies on Ideology, Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Technics and Politics. She also teaches in Professor of Philosophy and the Evjue-Bascom Universidad Nacional de La Plata. She is Professor in Humanities at the University of one of the foundation-members of the Red Wisconsin-Madison. His most recent book Latinoamericana de Estudios Althusserianos, is Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Lie and member of the Editing Board of Demarcaciones How to Die (Princeton, 2020). and is part of the Organizing Committee of Althusserian Studies Conferences since 2009.

652 Notes on Contributors Romé is the author of La posición materialista. El Dan Taylor is a Lecturer in Social and C pensamiento de Louis Althusser entre la práctica Political Thought at the Open University, UK. R teórica y la práctica política (Edulp: La Plata, 2015) He is the author of Spinoza and the Politics I and co-editor of La intervención de Althusser of Freedom (Edinburgh University Press S (Prometeo, Buenos Aires: 2011), and Lecturas 2021), Island Story: Journeys Through Unfamiliar I de Altusser (Imago Mundi: Buenos Aires, 2011). Britain (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, 2017) S Her book in English, For Theory: Althusser and the and Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Politics of Time come out in 2021 (Rowman and Neoliberal Era (2013). & Littlefield). Maria Turchetto taught History of Economic C Martin Saar is a professor of social philosophy Thought and Epistemology of the Social R at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main Sciences at the Ca’ Foscari University of I and a member of the steering committee Venice. She has published numerous articles in T of the Institute for Social Research. His Italian and foreign reviews (Science & Society, I areas of specialization and teaching refer to Historical Materialism, Journal, Actuel Marx, Q contemporary political and social philosophy, Critica Marxista, Quaderni Materialisti). She is U Critical Theory and the history of early modern currently president of the cultural association E and modern political thought. He is the author “Louis Althusser” and directs Althusseriana and of a book on genealogy, Genealogie als Kritik. Epistemologia series at the Mimesis publishing / Geschichte und Theorie des Subjekts nach house. Nietzsche und Foucault (Campus, 2007) and Volume 8 a book on Spinoza’s political theory, Die Miguel Vatter is Professor of politics at Issue 1 Immanenz der Macht. Politische Theorie nach Flinders University, Australia. His most recent Spinoza (Suhrkamp 2013). books are Divine Democracy. Political Theology after Carl Schmitt (Oxford UP 2020) and Living Hasana Sharp is Associate Professor & Chair Law. Jewish Political Theology from Hermann of the Department of Philosophy at McGill Cohen to Hannah Arendt (Oxford UP 2021). University. She researches and teaches early modern philosophy, feminist theory, philosophy Daniela Voss is Associate Lecturer in the of race, and the history of political thought. Department of Philosophy at the University of She is currently writing a book on Spinoza and Hildesheim. Her fields of research include the servitude. philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, post-Kantian philosophy, early modern Jack Stetter is Visiting Assistant Professor of philosophy and, more recently, philosophy of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. technology. She is the author of Conditions of His PhD is from the Université Paris VIII (2019), Thought: Deleuze and Transcendental Ideas where he also helped run the Séminaire Spinoza (Edinburgh UP, 2013) and co-editor with Craig à Paris 8. His publications include the co-edited Lundy of At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze volume Spinoza in Twenty-First Century American and Post-Kantian Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, and French Philosophy, along with papers on 2015). Her journal publications include those in the history of modern European philosophy Angelaki; Australasian Philosophical Review; in venues such as the Journal of Modern Continental Philosophy Review; Culture, Theory Philosophy and Modern Judaism. His website & Critique; Deleuze and Guattari Studies; is www.jackstetter.com. Parrhesia; Philosophy & Social Criticism.

Ted Stolze teaches philosophy at Cerritos Caroline Williams is a Senior Research Fellow College. He has co-edited (with Warren in the School of Politics and International Montag) The New Spinoza and translated In Relations at Queen Mary, University of a Materialist Way, an anthology of writings by London. She has published on the question Pierre Macherey. He has engaged in research of subjectivity, particularly in contemporary primarily in the areas of early modern and French thought, and in relation to Althusser and contemporary continental philosophy, and Spinoza. he has published articles on such figures as Paul of Tarsus, Hobbes, Spinoza, Deleuze, Althusser, Negri, and Zizek. His book Becoming Marxist: Studies in Philosophy, Struggle, and Endurance was recently published by Brill/ Haymarket.

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