Vittorio Morfino

Spinoza’s relationship with Descartes was always characterized both by proximity and distance. This ambivalence does not fail to affect the history of reception, from Spinoza’s death to the present day. However, the path of this history shows a remarkable paradigm-shift...

The article aims to interpret the theory of passions in Descartes and Spinoza in the light of two posterior models, namely the Husserlian intersubjectivity and the Simondonian transindividuality. This anachronistic reading of the two authors makes possible to shed light on the opposition between, on the one hand, a theory of passions as properties of a subject preceding the relations, and, on the other hand, a theory conceiving the subject itself as constituted by the complex web of passions...