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Author_Francois Zourabichvili
Baruch Spinoza
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Ethics
Form
Gilles Deleuze
Individuation
Metaphysics
monarchy
ontology
Political philosophy
Transformation
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- ISBN 9781399548007
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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François Zourabichvili (1965-2006) wrote two of the most important books on Spinoza in the past 20 years. The first book, Spinoza’s Paradoxical Conservatism (EUP, 2023) focuses on Spinoza’s political philosophy. This second book studies Spinoza’s metaphysics and the way he uses it to produce a ‘physics of thought’.
Zourabichvili suggests that Spinoza completely revises the concept of form and develops a novel theory of individuation. He argues that Spinoza specifically focuses on the problem of the individuation of ideas, whereas most thinkers only consider the problem of the individuation of bodies. In turn, he draws out the ethical implications of these new Spinozist conceptions.
François Zourabichvili was a director at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Spinoza: Une physique de la pensée (Presses Universitaires de Paris, 2002) Eric Aldieri is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Bridgewater State University. He has been published in Hypatia, Deleuze & Guattari Studies, and Derrida Today and The Journal of Speculative Philosophy. He has translated several works of French Spinozism into English, including Chantal Jaquet’s Time, Duration, and Eternity in Spinoza, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. His co-authored translation of François Zourabichvili’s Spinoza, A Physics of Thought: Form and Individuation will publish in March 2026, also with Edinburgh University Press. Gil Morejón teaches at Loyola University Chicago. His research focuses on early modern metaphysics and political theory. He is the author of The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza and Hume (Edinburgh University Press, 2022) and co-edited and co-translated Alexandre Matheron's Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
