Francois Zourabichvili was a director at the College international de philosophie in Paris from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and Spinoza: Une physique de la pensee (Presses Universitaires de Paris, 2002)
In his interrogation on ethical transition, Zourabichvili highlights how Spinozism is a philosophy of transformation - and how such a transformation implements, paradoxically, the sense of: ""to persevere in one's being"". It thus allows us to reflect on the ultimate political question: what is a free multitude?-- ""Pierre-François Moreau, L'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon"" This book, the chef-d'oeuvre of a young philosophical genius, who left us in the prime of his life, offers a systematic interpretation of Spinoza's ideas on monarchy and infancy, strangely associated, which by contrast reveal the tension between formation and death at the core of his ""political ontology"". It changed my understanding of Ethics and Theological-Political Treatise.-- ""Etienne Balibar, author of Spinoza, The Transindividual""