Introduction -- The virtues of geometry -- From Maimonides to Spinoza : three versions of intellectual transition -- Spinoza and Descartes -- The building blocks of Spinoza's metaphysics : substance, attributes, and modes -- But why was Spinoza a Neccessitarian? -- The principles of sufficient reason in Spinoza -- Spinoza and the philosophy of science : mathematics, motion, and being -- Representation, misrepresentation, and error in Spinoza's philosophy of mind -- Finite subjects in the Ethics : Spinoza on the indexical knowledge, the first person, and the individuality of human minds -- Spinoza on skepticism -- The highest good and perfection in Spinoza -- Spinoza on mind -- The intellectual love of God -- The metaphysics of affects or the unbearable reality of confusion -- Spinoza's unorthodox metaphysics of the will -- Eternity -- Spinoza's philosophy of religion -- Spinoza's philosophy of religion -- Leibniz's encounter with Spinoza's monism, October 1675 to February 1678 -- Playing with Fire : Hume, rationalism, and a little bit of Spinoza -- Kant and Spinoza debating the third antinomy -- "Nothing comes from nothing" : Judaism, the orient, and Kabbalah in Hegel's reception of Spinoza -- Nietzsche and Spinoza : enemy-brothers -- Spinoza's afterlife in Judaism and the task of modern Jewish philosophy -- Spinoza's relevance to contemporary metaphysics -- Literary Spinoza.