Spinoza and the Sign

An outstanding, original, and meticulous study of Spinoza’s semiology, this work by eminent Spinoza scholar, Lorenzo Vinciguerra, will draw much attention and applause. – Yitzhak Y. Melamed, Johns Hopkins University
Lorenzo Vinciguerra’s Spinoza and the Sign; the Logic of Imagination is one of the most important books on Spinoza to appear in the twenty-first century. It is both extraordinarily erudite, drawing on an immense and diverse body of scholarship, even as Vinciguerra’s project is in many respects without precedent. As the book’s title suggests, he sets out to explain Spinoza’s theory of imagination by examining the often overlooked role of the sign (signum) in Spinoza’s oeuvre. Spinoza’s sign is not exclusive to language; according to Vinciguerra, signs are perpetually produced and interpreted by bodies that affect and are in turn affected by other bodies in a process that is not restricted to the human world but envelops all that exists. Spinoza and the Sign is a profoundly Spinozist study of Spinoza, an attempt to think with rather than about Spinoza and as such invites us to think in new ways. – Warren Montag, Occidental College

Lorenzo Vinciguerra is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Bologna and Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Amiens. He is the director of Sive Natura, the International Center for Spinozan Studies (ICSS).

Vinciguerra has authored several books on Spinoza, which have been translated into various languages. His works include:

• Spinoza (Carocci, Rome 2015)
• La semiotica di Spinoza (ETS, Pisa 2012)
• Qu l’avenir pour Spinoza? Enquetes sur les spinozismes venir (Kime, Paris 2001)

With Pierre-Francois Moreau, he co-edited Spinoza et les arts (L’Harmattan, Paris, 2020). His academic interests span the history of Spinozism, pragmatism, ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of art.

Alexander Reynolds is a translator and independent scholar. His recent translations include:

• Individuality and Beyond: Nietzsche Reads Emerson by Benedetta Zavatta (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Francesco Patrizi’s Conceptions of Space and Geometry by Vincenzo de Risi, in Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy (eds. Vermeer and Regier) (Springer, 2016)
• The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century by Davide Crippa (Birkhuser, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2019)

Helen Glanville, a Laureate of the Académie de France 2022, is a translator and independent scholar.

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