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.