...Cesare Casarino Abstract This essay investigates the absent presence of Baruch Spinoza’s thought in Gilles Deleuze’s Cinema 1: The Movement-Image and Cinema 2: The Time-Image and argues that the concept of expression—as articulated by Deleuze in his study on Spinoza, Expressionism in Philosophy...

... another it looks back to Søren Kierkegaard and Baruch Spinoza (among others) to refresh our defi nitions of subjectivity. Some affect theory defends the thera- peutic value of embracing unpleasant feelings such as shame, sad- ness, or loneliness. Its other branches highlight “ugly feelings” (to use...

... a One that gives rise to the Many runs through Western and Islamic philosophy, from the pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle to the Greek and Islamic Neoplatonists such as al-Kindī and al-Farābī, to Avicenna and his Scholastic interpreters, through Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, and...

... motion thus owes a great debt to these figures but must also move beyond their limitations in its own way. From his first book to his last, Deleuze grants a similar ontological primacy to what he calls “the image of thought.” 62 Thought, for Deleuze, following Spinoza, is just one plane of...