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    <body><![CDATA[chapter two is changing my mode of living, specifically how I organize my relations to (and of) joy and sadness in order to increase of decrease my power to act and think.  Spinoza works to produce or better, propose , a philosophy that is not grounded in cartesian subjectivity and individualism, bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15709032">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[As a long time fan of both Mssrs. Spinoza and Deleuze, this made for a very impressive synthesis.  Deleuze loses his weird, babbling writing style and becomes pretty lucid, showing the linkages between his own philosophy and the ecstatic monist perspective of Spinoza, showing subversive possibilitie...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25726215">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A good book to read as an introduction to Spinoza. It's also worthwhile to get this book to have as a reference or companion piece if you are doing any further exploration of Spinoza's work.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Sure, it's Deleuze. Yeah, it's quirky. Conatus, Deleuze finds, is an awfully good concept. He makes much of it. But it's not really all that Spinozian.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Amazing, accessible intro to both Spinoza AND Deleuze, if you ask me.]]></body>
    
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