A. Kiarina Kordela is Associate Professor of German Studies at Macalester College.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Context

Postmodern "Neo-Spinozism"

Scientific "Neo-Spinozism" and Hegel

Consensual, Evolutionist "Modern Spinozism"

After the Contex

Part I. Secular Causality and Its Enjoyment

From the First Cause to Transference Causes or Reasons?

Science of Differential Substance

Secular Ontology: Differential (Non-)Substance and the End of (Anti-)Platonism

Wherein Consists the Break of Secular Modernity?

History of Differential (Non-)Substance

Ethics of Differential (Non-)Substance

From Libido to Enjoyment

A History of God in Secular Reason (From Philosophy to Non-Anti-Philosophy)

God in (or out of?) Cultural Studies

The Break of Extimacy

(Burning with) Enjoyment

God, Nobody, or Mr. Nobody?

Part II. Kant with Marx: Surplus, Or, Gaze

Commodity Fetishism: Toward an Epistemo-/Ontology of Surplus

The Rule of Representation and Sex (From Kant's Rule of Reason to Marx's Rule of Exchange-Value)

Set Theory and Being (Marx's Materialist Metaphysics)

From Absolute Knowledge to the Gaze

Is It Possible Not to Hate Representation? (Another Look at Empire)

In Lieu of an Epilogue

Another Look at Ethics, Or, Commodity and the Gaze

Notes
Cited Works
Index