MH 1: Table of Contents; MH 2: Reference Conventions; MH 3: Notes on Translation and Acknowledgments; CHAPTER: Introduction; A1: Memory and Form: The State and its Ruin; A2: Amnesia and Formation: The Birth of a State; A3: The Adult Chapterild and Chapterimeras; PART 1: First Study. Involving Another Nature / Involving Nature; CHAPTER 1: Ethical Transition in the Short Treatise; A1: Proper Element and Foreign Element (KV II, 26); A2: A New Birth (KV II, 22); A3: The Ambivalence of 'Union'; CHAPTER 2: Ethical Transition in the Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect; A1: The Logic of Ethical Transition: Conversion and Dilemma; A2: The Role of 'Striving'; A3: The ConcePart of Institutum: The Logic of Convergence; A4: Distraction, Possession: The Shadow of Transformation; A5: Homo concipiat naturam aliquam humanam sua multo firmiorem; MH 4: Appendices to the First Study; PART 2: Second Study. The Rectified Image of Chapterildhood; CHAPTER 3: The Figure of the Infans Adultus; A1: The Chapterild of SChapterolasticism, and the Contradictions of the Renaissance; A2: The Chapterild of Painting and Medicine; A3: The Chapterild of the Jurists; A4: The Parable of the First Man; A5: Cartesian Voluntarism, Spinozist Voluntarism; CHAPTER 4: Chapterildhood and Philosophy; A1: Infantile Impotence: Neither Privation nor Misery (sChapterolia to Ethics V, 6 and 39); A2: Note on Gabriel Metsu's The Sick Chapterild; A3: The Chapterildishness of Men; A4: The Autonomisation of the Body; CHAPTER 5: Chapterildhood and Memory; A1: The Amnesiac Regime of the Fascinated Infans; A2: In what sense is the body of the Chapterild 'as it were in a state of equilibrium'?; A3: Adolescence: Age of Reason or Final Avatar of the Infans Adultus?; A4: What is a Spinozist Pedagogy?; MH 5: Concluding Remarks on the Relationship to Chapterildhood; PART 3: Third Study. The Power of God and the Power of Kings; CHAPTER 6: The Confusion of the Two Powers and the Baroque Drift of Cartesianism; A1: Refutation of the Power of Abstention; A2: Refutation of the Power of the Alternative; A3: Ethics I, 33, its Demonstration, and its Second SChapterolium; A4: The Baroque--or its Banishment?; A5: The Paradoxical Fate of Spinozism: Chapterimera against Chapterimera, and How the Relation ; to Polytheism is Truly Established in Spinoza's Thought; CHAPTER 7: The Transformist Dream of Absolute MonarChaptery; A1: The Divinization of Kings; A2: MonarChapterical Absolutism and Metamorphosis; A3: Royal Absolutism according to Spinoza: a Quintuple Chapterimera; A4: First Chapterimera: Behind the King, the Favorites and the Court; A5: Second Chapterimera: The Tyrannical Dream of Transforming Nature; A6: Third Chapterimera: Chapteranging Decrees (and the Theory of the King's Double Mind); A7: Fourth Chapterimera: The Death of the King and Succession (TP VII, 25); A8: Fifth Chapterimera: Return to Apotheosis, and Theocratic Truth; CHAPTER 8: What is a Free Multitude? War and Civilization; A1: The People that Does Not Fear Death (Praise for the Ancient Hebrews); A2: Combat and Freedom in the Political Treatise (VII, 22); MH 6: Pierre MaChaptererey and François ZourabiChaptervili on Spinoza's Paradoxical Conservatism; MH 7: Works Cited; MH 8: Index.