0/00tienne Balibar, one of the foremost living French philosophers, builds on his landmark work on Spinoza (TM)s political thought Spinoza and Politics with this exploration of Spinoza (TM)s ontology. Balibar situates Spinoza in relation to the major figures of Marx and Freud as a precursor to the more recent French thinker Gilbert Simondon (TM)s concept of the transindividual
Presenting a crucial development in his thought, Balibar takes the concept of transindividuality beyond Spinoza to show it at work: both at the collective and the individual level.