• The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern Philosophy (edited book)
    Edinburgh University Press. forthcoming.
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    Spinoza and Popular Philosophy
    In Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), A Companion to Spinoza, Wiley. 2021.
    The study of highly imagistic representations of Spinoza's philosophy found in popular, extra‐academic literature is essential for building a rational view on Spinoza's philosophy. Popular literature on Spinoza is an ineliminable condition of academic literature on Spinoza. The cementing of Spinoza's popularity belongs to a larger history of Spinoza's reception. This chapter examines two late‐nineteenth and early‐twentieth century works on Spinoza. Jules Prat's idiosyncratic blend of Spinozism a…Read more
  • The Edinburgh Critical History of Early Modern and Enlightenment Philosophy (edited book)
    Edinburgh University Press. forthcoming.
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    Spinoza's Argument for Substance Monism
    Revista Seiscentos 1 (1): 193-215. 2021.
    In this paper, I inspect the grounds for the mature Spinozist argument for substance monism. The argument is succinctly stated at Ethics Part 1, Proposition 14. The argument appeals to two explicit premises: (1) that there must be a substance with all attributes; (2) that substances cannot share their attributes. In conjunction with a third implicit premise, that a substance cannot not have any attribute whatsoever, Spinoza infers that there can be no more than one substance. I begin the inspect…Read more
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    De la nature des choses singulières chez Spinoza
    Dissertation, University of Paris 8. 2012.
    Le mémoire de Master 2. Soutenu en 2012 à Paris VIII sous la direction de Ch. Ramond. A study of Spinoza's account of "singular things" in the Ethics along with the classic French literature on the subject. TABLE DES MATIÈRES: INTRODUCTION GENERALE (p. 3 – 4) PREMIERE PARTIE : DE LA NATURE DE DIEU AUX CHOSES SINGULIERES (p. 5 – 97) INTRODUCTION (p. 5 – 16) : DU RAPPORT DE L’INFINIMENT INFINI ET DU FINI. Pourquoi l’Éthique commence par l’infiniment infini (Dieu). De l’immanentisme spinoziste. Abr…Read more
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    Spinoza's Substance Monism Contextualized
    Dissertation, University of Paris 8. 2019.
    Résumé (FR) : L'adhésion de Spinoza à la doctrine du monisme de la substance constitue le fondement de sa philosophie. Cependant, la manière dont nous pouvons comprendre cette doctrine est loin d'être évidente. Les problèmes dans son interprétation comprennent la difficulté à caractériser le rapport entre la substance et ses modes, la validité de l’argument spinoziste pour établir le monisme, et la cohérence de maintenir qu’il peut y avoir des idées fausses alors que toute idée est en Dieu. Nous…Read more
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    Un homme ivre d'immanence: Deleuze's Spinoza and Immanence
    Crisis and Critique 8 (1): 388-418. 2021.
    Although Deleuze’s work on Spinoza is widely known, it remains poorly understood. In particular, Deleuze’s interpretation of Spinoza’s immanentism has not been treated sufficient care; that is, with an eye to the context of its elaboration and the way in which it gradually takes on different characteristics. With this paper, I offer a synoptic analysis of Deleuze’s views on immanence in Spinoza and examine how these change over the course of Deleuze’s career. There are three ascending stages her…Read more
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    Spinoza
    Springer Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences. 2021.
    Encyclopedia entry for the Springer Encyclopedia of EM Phil and the Sciences, ed. D. Jalobeanu and C. T. Wolfe.
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    Spinoza and Popular Philosophy
    In Yitzhak Y. Melamed (ed.), Blackwell Companion to Spinoza, Blackwell. pp. 568-577. 2021.
    A study of selected popular literature on Spinoza for the Blackwell Companion to Spinoza.
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    La modulation spinoziste: Pour se purifier de la philosophie
    In Timea Gyimesi (ed.), Modulation — Deleuze, Jate Press. pp. 49-58. 2017.
    Une analyse de l'interprétation de la philosophie spinoziste comme philosophie de l'immanence soutenue par G. Deleuze, notamment dans "Qu'est-ce que la philosophie?" (Paris: Éd. Minuit, 1991).
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    Spinoza and Judaism in the French Context: The Case of Milner's Le Sage Trompeur
    Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience 40 (2): 227-255. 2020.
    Jean-Claude Milner’s Le sage trompeur (2013), a controversial recent piece of French Spinoza literature, remains regrettably understudied in the English-speaking world. Adopting Leo Strauss’ esoteric reading method, Milner alleges that Spinoza dissimulates his genuine analysis of the causes of the persecution and survival of the Jewish people within a brief “manifesto” found at the end of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (TTP), Chapter 3. According to Milner, Spinoza holds that the Jewish peop…Read more
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    François Lamy’s Cartesian Refutation of Spinoza’s Ethics
    Journal of Modern Philosophy 1 (1): 7. 2019.
    François Lamy, a Benedictine monk and Cartesian philosopher whose extensive relations with Arnauld, Bossuet, Fénélon, and Malebranche put him into contact with the intellectual elite of late-seventeenth-century France, authored the very first detailed and explicit refutation of Spinoza’s Ethics in French, Le nouvel athéisme renversé. Regrettably overlooked in the secondary literature on Spinoza, Lamy is an interesting figure in his own right, and his anti-Spinozist work sheds important light on …Read more
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    Contributors: Steven Barbone, Laurent Bove, Edwin Curley, Valérie Debuiche, Michael Della Rocca, Simon B. Duffy, Daniel Garber, Pascale Gillot, Céline Hervet, Jonathan Israel, Chantal Jaquet, Mogens Lærke, Jacqueline Lagrée, Martin Lin, Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Pierre-François Moreau, Steven Nadler, Knox Peden, Alison Peterman, Charles Ramond, Michael A. Rosenthal, Pascal Sévérac, Hasana Sharp, Jack Stetter, Ariel Suhamy, Lorenzo Vinciguerra.
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    L'État comme âme, le citoyen comme soumis et comme résistant
    Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 147 (Spinoza politique - penser la pu): 185-205. 2015.
    Nous cherchons ici à étudier la signification du fait qu’un État, chez Spinoza, peut se comprendre intégralement comme étant une « âme » singulière. Nous montrons en quoi cette compréhension de l’État comme « âme » permet d’expliciter les éléments centraux de la théorie de l’obéissance chez Spinoza, et en quoi le succès du projet politique spinoziste n’est envisageable que de cette perspective. Nous soulevons en conclusion un paradoxe : Spinoza écrit (TP 3/8) que nul ne cède de sa faculté de jug…Read more