Spinoza and the Sign
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Lorenzo Vinciguerra understands Spinoza’s non-dualist ontology as a semiotic process of signs interpreted in a pragmatist sense. He provides a genuine understanding of Spinoza’s monism as neither materialistic nor idealistic.
This first translation of Vinciguerra’s work into English gives readers the opportunity to better understand the connection between Spinoza’s Ethics and Theologico-Political Treatise from a common perspective on the imagination. This provides the possibility to rethink imagination in a new way: as a cosmic and immanent semiosis including all bodies in nature as modes of a unique substance.
Lorenzo Vinciguerra is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Amiens and director of Sive Natura. International Center for Spinozan Studies (ICSS). He is the director of Sive Natura. International Center for Spinozan Studies (ICSS). He has written several books on Spinoza which have been published and translated into different languages: Spinoza (Carocci, Rome 2015; La semiotica di Spinoza (ETS, Pisa 2012), Qu l’avenir pour Spinoza? Enquêtes sur les spinozismes à venir (Kimé, Paris 2001) and with Pierre-François Moreau he edited Spinoza et les arts (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2020). His interests move through the history of Spinozism, pragmatism, ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Alexander Reynolds is a translator and independent scholar. He recently translated Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson by Benedetta Zavatta (Oxford University Press, 2019), Vincenzo de Risi: Francesco Patrizi’s Conceptions of Space and Geometry, in Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (eds. Vermeer and Regier) (Springer, 2016) and Davide Crippa, The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century, Birkhäuser, (Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019). Helen Glanville, Lauréate Académie de France 2022, is a translator and independent scholar.
Preface to the English edition: Beneath the dry rubbish-heaps of Spinoza
Preface to the second edition: On some conclusions without premises
Abbreviations
Introduction: Thinking the sign
Spinoza and the sign
Genesis of the imagination
part one: Æsthetica
Section ONE: Sensatio
Chapter 1: Doubt and Sensation
The monoideistic hypothesis
Vera dubitatio
The ass’s dilemma
Aequilibrium & salus
Incroyable Descartes
Chapter 2: Sensation and Amazement
Amazement
Admirable Descartes
Monoideism and amazement
The idea-sensation
The winged horse
Section TWO: Union and Sensation
Chapter 3: “What, then, is this sensation?”
The union of mind and body
The scent of truth
Consciousness and sensation
Chapter 4: Feeling Eternity
We feel that we are eternal
Actuality and existence
Chapter 5: The Finite and Finitude
The singular and the finite
The three ways of being finitum
part two: THE BODY AND ITS TRACE
Section THREE: The logic of affection
Chapter 6: Ontology and phenomenology
The emergence of the singular
A blind spot?
The affected body
Chapter 7: Affection and perception
Primum & secundum
Sensation and affection
Unicum & primum
Section FOUR: The traces of the body
Chapter 8: Vestigia
The fifth postulate
The ‘Categories’: hard, soft, fluid
Traceability
Retention and distance
The vestigia of the pineal gland
The re-markable being of the trace
The fluid
Chapter 9: Form and Figure
The figuring of form
Form, Figure, Trace
The figures of reason
Vestigia intellectus
Chapter 10: Traces and Form
The amnesiac poet
Infans adultus
part THREE: Of Images and Signs
Section FIVE: The Genesis of Images
Chapter 11: From Traces to Images
On the difference between trace and image
The idea of the trace
Envelopment / development
Aetiology and semiology
Chapter 12: The images of things
The definition of images
Mimesis and semiosis
The idea of image
Announcement and referral
The signifying process of images
Section SIX: Cognitio ex signis
Chapter 13: Sign and Interpretation
Concatenatio
Interpretation
The interpreter
The soldier, the farmer, the ant, the sunflower
The body–sign
Chapter 14: The genesis of the sign
The common images
Distinction and crystallisation
The Transcendentals
The public aspect of the sign
Chapter 15: Consuetudo, Usus, Praxis
The semiotic relation
When believing is doing
Faith
part FOUR: On the use of signs
Section SEVEN: The signs of men
Chapter 16: Homines & Omina
The semiology of fear
The sign as contract
Chapter 17: The empire of the sign
The regime of superstition
Arcana & mysteria
The exculpation of reason
Arcana imperii
Chapter 18: The two Revelations
The definition of prophecy
Propheta & propagator
Interpretatio naturae
Chapter 19: Revelation by signs
When God gives a sign
Causa, index, signum
The corporeal nature of God
Angels
Chapter 20: The prophet and his signs
The second sign
Moral certainty
Justitiae vestigia
bibliography
Spinoza’s Works
Original Editions
Reference Editions
Separated Editions and English Translations
Other Translations used
Journals and Collections Devoted to Spinoza
Commentaries
Bibliographies on Spinoza
Indexes and Lexicons
Secondary sources cited
index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.7.2026 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Spinoza Studies |
| Übersetzer | Alexander Reynolds, Helen Glanville |
| Zusatzinfo | 2 black and white illustration |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781399542135 / 9781399542135 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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