Spinoza, New Materialism and the Contemporary is a book about change. Through its border passing interpretations, it not only transforms the dominant contemporary views of Spinoza but, more significantly, it puts into question the assumptions of those that have produced the dominant view, such as Althusser, Negri, Deleuze, as well as the new materialism and the ontological turn, including Latour, Bennett and Braidotti. These interpretations deploy Spinoza as a trope by which they suspend the class contradictions of capitalism and construct a new spiritual capitalism. This book, through materialist analysis of Spinoza, puts class back in cultural theory.

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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1. Left Spinozism and the Metaphysics of Democracy
- 2. The Orphan of History, the Left Hermeneutic and Self-Relating Substance
- 3. Something Has Happened to Ontology: Contingency, Immanence and Conatus
- 4. The New (New) Materialism: Materialism with a Green Aroma
- 5. The Vibrating Pixel: Negri, Potentia and the Commonbeing of Biomaterialism
- Back Matter
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