...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...

... interpreters, through Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, and G. W. F. Hegel, and into contemporary philosophy. Note the crucial contributions, over several centuries, of Arabic and Islamic thought. While most contemporary philosophy ignores that period, in fact the concept of One and Many makes no...

... drawn up, which would likely include Heraclitus, Duns Scotus, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Leibniz, and others. For Whitehead, process is real, but continuous change and motion are not. For example, according to Whitehead, change is only “the difference between actual occasions comprised in some determined event...