Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Politics of Renaturalization
A Practical Wisdom of Renaturalization
Impersonal Politics
Ingredients
Part I: Reconfiguring the Human
1. Lines, Planes, and Bodies: Redefining Human Action
Action as Affect
The Transindividuality of Affect: Spinoza and Simondon
The Tongue
2. Renaturalizing Ideology: Spinoza’s Ecosystem of Ideas
The Matrix
Ideology Critique Today?
The Fly in the Coach
“I am in Ideology,” or The Attribute of Thought
What Is to Be Done?
3. Man’s Utility to Man: Reason and Its Place in Nature
The Politics of Human Nature
Reason and the Human Essence
Man’s Utility to Man
Nonhuman Utility
Part II: Beyond the Image of Man
4. Desire for Recognition? Butler, Hegel, and Spinoza
Spinoza in Hegel
Desire in Hegel
Conatus and Cupiditas in Spinoza
From Interpersonal Recognition to Impersonal Glory
Judith Butler’s Post-Hegelian Politics of Recognition
5. The Impersonal Is Political: Spinoza and a Feminist Politics of Imperceptibility
The Politics of Recognition
Elizabeth Grosz’s Critique of the Politics of Recognition
Thinking beyond the (Hu)Man
A Politics of Imperceptibility
6. Nature, Norms, and Beasts
The Beast Within
Animal Affects (and) the First Man
Ethics as Ethology?
Notes
Works Cited
Index