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.

• PrefaceA. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris VardoulakisMemory, Chance and Conflict: Machiavelli in the Theologico-Political TreatiseVittorio Morfino The Symptomatic Relationship between Law and Conflict in Spinoza: Jura communia as anima imperiiFilippo Del LuccheseAuthority and the Law: The Primacy of Justification over Legitimacy in SpinozaDimitris VardoulakisHobbes and Spinoza on Scriptural Interpretation, the Hebrew Republic and the Deconstruction of SovereigntyJames R. MartelSpinoza’s Politics of ErrorSiarhei BiareishykSpinoza’s Sovereignty: Fantasy and the Immanent Decision of InterpretationA. Kiarina Kordela and Joe Bermas-Dawes Spinoza and Signs: The Two Covenants and Authority in the Theological-Political TreatiseGregg LambertSpinoza and the Hydraulic Discipline of Affects: From the Theologico-Political to the Economic Regime of DesireChiara Bottici and Miguel de BeisteguiIndex

The two volumes of Spinoza's Authority have a great deal to offer students and working scholars alike. They contribute to the continental tradition of the interpretation of Spinoza, and they also describe Spinozism as an approach to current social and political issues.

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.

• PrefaceA. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris VardoulakisMemory, Chance and Conflict: Machiavelli in the Theologico-Political TreatiseVittorio Morfino The Symptomatic Relationship between Law and Conflict in Spinoza: Jura communia as anima imperiiFilippo Del LuccheseAuthority and the Law: The Primacy of Justification over Legitimacy in SpinozaDimitris VardoulakisHobbes and Spinoza on Scriptural Interpretation, the Hebrew Republic and the Deconstruction of SovereigntyJames R. MartelSpinoza’s Politics of ErrorSiarhei BiareishykSpinoza’s Sovereignty: Fantasy and the Immanent Decision of InterpretationA. Kiarina Kordela and Joe Bermas-Dawes Spinoza and Signs: The Two Covenants and Authority in the Theological-Political TreatiseGregg LambertSpinoza and the Hydraulic Discipline of Affects: From the Theologico-Political to the Economic Regime of DesireChiara Bottici and Miguel de BeisteguiIndex

The two volumes of Spinoza's Authority have a great deal to offer students and working scholars alike. They contribute to the continental tradition of the interpretation of Spinoza, and they also describe Spinozism as an approach to current social and political issues.

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.

• PrefaceA. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris VardoulakisMemory, Chance and Conflict: Machiavelli in the Theologico-Political TreatiseVittorio Morfino The Symptomatic Relationship between Law and Conflict in Spinoza: Jura communia as anima imperiiFilippo Del LuccheseAuthority and the Law: The Primacy of Justification over Legitimacy in SpinozaDimitris VardoulakisHobbes and Spinoza on Scriptural Interpretation, the Hebrew Republic and the Deconstruction of SovereigntyJames R. MartelSpinoza’s Politics of ErrorSiarhei BiareishykSpinoza’s Sovereignty: Fantasy and the Immanent Decision of InterpretationA. Kiarina Kordela and Joe Bermas-Dawes Spinoza and Signs: The Two Covenants and Authority in the Theological-Political TreatiseGregg LambertSpinoza and the Hydraulic Discipline of Affects: From the Theologico-Political to the Economic Regime of DesireChiara Bottici and Miguel de BeisteguiIndex

The two volumes of Spinoza's Authority have a great deal to offer students and working scholars alike. They contribute to the continental tradition of the interpretation of Spinoza, and they also describe Spinozism as an approach to current social and political issues.