Notes on Contributors Prologue Preface Susan James Introduction: Pestilence Dan Taylor and Marie Wuth Abbreviations Part I. Politics 1. Truth, Obedience and Freedom. Some Considerations on Spinoza's Concept of Politics and its Relation with Philosophy María Jimena Solé 2. Hobbes and Spinoza on natural equality and political equilibrium Beth Lord 3. What would the Practice of the Universal Faith in Democracy Look Like? Ki-Myoung Kim Part II. Power 4. God or Natura naturata? Spinoza on the Identity Between God and Nature Antonio Salgado Borge 5.

Kissing the Ring: Power, Ingenium and Disposition Dan Taylor 6. Violence, Speech, and Deception in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise Hasana Sharp 7. Towards Spinoza's Critique of Violence: On Sovereign Interruption and the Bodily Limits of Political Violence Nicolas Lema Habash Part III. Imagination 8. Recognition-Rebellion-Freedom - Emergent Identities and Political Change in Spinoza Steph Marston 9. Daily Invectives: The State of Bitter Hate Marie Wuth 10. Imagination, Authority, and Admiratio in Spinoza's Theologico-Political Thought Gil Morejón 11. Spinoza's True Prophecies: Justified Good Belief Emanuele Costa Epilogue Roundtable on Democracy, Public Reasoning and the Education of the Imagination Mogens Lærke, Martin Saar and Dan Taylor Works Cited Index.