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