A. Kiarina Kordela is Professor of German and Director of the Critical Theory Program, at Macalester College, and honorary adjunct professor at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Spinoza's political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of modern philosophy as a means to help reinterpret and rethink the political present. Spinoza's Authority Volume II makes a significant contribution to this ongoing reception and utilization of Spinoza's 1670s Theologico-Political and Political treatises. By taking the concept of authority as an original framework, this books asks: How is authority related to law, memory, and conflict in Spinoza's political thought? What are the social, historical and representational processes that produce authority and resistance? And what are the conditions of effective resistance?


Spinoza's Authority Volume II features a roster of internationally established theorists of Spinoza's work, and covers key elements of Spinoza's political philosophy.

Preface
A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis

Memory, Chance and Conflict: Machiavelli in the Theologico-Political Treatise
Vittorio Morfino

The Symptomatic Relationship between Law and Conflict in Spinoza: Jura communia as anima imperii
Filippo Del Lucchese

Authority and the Law: The Primacy of Justification over Legitimacy in Spinoza
Dimitris Vardoulakis

Hobbes and Spinoza on Scriptural Interpretation, the Hebrew Republic and the Deconstruction of Sovereignty
James R. Martel

Spinoza's Politics of Error
Siarhei Biareishyk

Spinoza's Sovereignty: Fantasy and the Immanent Decision of Interpretation
A. Kiarina Kordela and Joe Bermas-Dawes

Spinoza and Signs: The Two Covenants and Authority in the Theological-Political Treatise
Gregg Lambert

Spinoza and the Hydraulic Discipline of Affects: From the Theologico-Political to the Economic Regime of Desire
Chiara Bottici and Miguel de Beistegui
Index