Translator's Introduction By David Maruzzella Preface by Chantal Jaquet Abbreviations Introduction: Reopening the Question of Community: Spinoza, Sartre and the Critique of Contractualism Part I Political Thought in Spinoza and Sartre: Response to Alexandre Matheron's Question Chapter 1 The Classical Problematic of the Passage from the State of Nature to Civil Society: Hobbes Chapter 2 The Concepts of Seriality and Group in Sartre's Political Thought -Seriality and the Fused Group -The Question of the Group's Permanence Chapter 3 Spinoza's Account of the Passage from the State of Nature to Civil Society -The Role of Indignation as Motor of Political Society Chapter 4 Spinoza and Sartre's Shared Political Horizon: The Constitution of Political Society as Collective Liberation -Preliminary Parallels -The Irreducibility of Each Individual and Each Human Plurality. Originary Experience, exis and ingenium -The Transformation of the "Subjected Multitude" into the "Free Multitude", or the Structural Necessity of the Transformation of Quantity into Power Part II The Articulation of the Politics of Singularities and the Ethics of Generosity in Spinoza and Sartre Chapter 5 The Surviving Group and the Permanence of the Free Multitude: Staying Together by and for the Freedom of All Chapter 6 From Shared Reflective Freedom to Individual Authenticity -The Articulation of Political Reflection and the Ethics of Pure Reflection in Sartre -Authenticity and Pure Reflection -The Being of Value and the Idea of Singularity in Being and Nothingness -Social Value: Generosity Chapter 7 Peace and the Concept of Strength of Character in Spinoza: The Intersection of Politics and Ethics -The Political Concept of Peace in Spinoza and its Roots in the Ethics -Adequate Understanding of Being in Sartre and Spinoza: Pure Reflection and Strength of Character as Terms for the Condition of Possibility of Free Collective Life Conclusion: Generosity and the Continuous Construction of Community Works Cited Index.