Spinoza, the Epicurean: Authority and Utility in Materialism - Paperback

Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is the author of The Doppelg?nger: Literature's Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2010), Sovereignty and its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence (Fordham UP, 2013), Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter (SUNY, 2016) and Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Fordham University Press, 2018). He has also edited or co-edited numerous books, including Spinoza Now(University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and Spinoza's Authority (2 volumes, Bloomsbury, 2018). He is the director of "Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society" and is co-series editor of Incitements at Edinburgh University Press.