艾蒂安·巴里巴尔是当今法国著名的马克思主义哲学家，曾是法国马克思主义理论代表阿尔都塞的学生和最重要的合作者。本书对欧洲哲学史传统中重要的唯物主义代表斯宾诺莎的几大基础文本做了细致的解读，力图呈现出斯宾诺莎与现代革命思想之间的深刻联系，特别是提供了阿尔都塞学派自身的知识密码，既是阿尔都塞学派政治哲学史研究的代表作品，也开创了当代左翼思想家解读斯宾诺莎的先河。

《斯宾诺莎与表现问题/当代法国思想文化译丛》为法国著名哲学家德勒兹的代表著作之一。在书中，德勒兹从表现概念入手，探讨斯宾诺莎哲学的意义，并从这种探讨中引出了自己的哲学思想。在他看来，表现的概念凸现了斯宾诺莎哲学的三个维度：一，作为存在学的实体理论；第二，作为知识论的理念理论；第三，作为人类学、政治学的样式理论。在对表现概念的解释中，德勒兹认为表现者、被表现者和表现自身三者不可分离，从而为自己的实在和思想的关系理论奠定基础。

《斯宾诺莎书信集》在消除一些对斯宾诺莎哲学观点过分夸大的理解方面也起了明显的纠正作用。一个最明显的例子是对其“规定就是否定”的理解。众所周知，黑格尔对斯宾诺莎这一命题作了很高的评价，认为它是“一个伟大的命题：一切规定都是否定。规定的东西就是有限的东西：对于任何东西，包括思想（与广延相对立）在内，都可以说，这是一个规定的东西，所以自身中包含着否定，它的本质是建立在否定上的。

斯宾诺莎（1632—1677）是荷兰哲学家，近代西方哲学理性论的代表人物之一。《知性改进论》是斯宾诺莎最早的一部著作，篇幅不大，副标题为“并论最足以指导人达到对事物的真知识的途径”。斯宾诺莎在书中探讨了寻求知识的途径和方法，指出真理和实在的系统一贯性，并力图把十七世纪发展起来的新的力学和数学的精神推广应用到研究存在的认识的整个领域。

在本书中，作者将斯宾诺莎的《论神、人及其心灵幸福》《笛卡尔哲学原理》《形而上学思想》《神学政治论》《伦理学》《政治论》连贯为了一个具有内在难题性关联的整体，揭示出斯宾诺莎形而上学的唯物主义实践性，作者本人无疑继承了他所解读的这种政治的形而上学，并展望了它在当代语境中的活力。更重要的是，作者后来创造的“诸众”哲学和“社会智能”及“帝国”概念都可以在本书中找到理论基础。

In this essential rereading of Spinoza's (1632-1677) philosophical and political writings, Negri positions this thinker within the historical context of the development of the modern state and its attendant political economy. Through a close examination of Spinoza, Negri reveals turn as unique among his contemporaries for his nondialectical approach to social organization in a bourgeois age.

Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. Attention has been drawn to Spinoza by deep ecologists such as Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher; and this reading of Spinoza by Deleuze lends itself to a radical ecological ethic. As Robert Hurley says in his introduction, "Deleuze opens us to the idea that the elements of the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. One wonders, finally, whether Man might be defined as a territory, a set of boundaries, a limit on existence." Gilles Deleuze, known for his inquiries into desire, language, politics, and power, finds a kinship between Spinoza and Nietzsche. He writes, ""Spinoza did not believe in hope or even in courage; he believed only in joy and in vision . . . he more than any other gave me the feeling of a gust of air from behind each time I read him, of a witch's broom that he makes one mount. Gilles Deleuze was a professor of philosophy at the University of Paris at Vincennes. Robert Hurley is the translator of Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality.

本书是17世纪荷兰杰出的唯物主义哲学家和无神论者斯宾诺莎的主要著作之一。该书于1670年匿名出版。在该书中，作者用科学的、历史的方法，在历史上第一次批判了并重新解释了《圣经》，驳倒了神学家们对《圣经》的各种歪曲和捏造，摧毁了教会统治的基础。