Spinoza and the Rise of Systems

About the Author

Diego Donna is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bologna, where he focuses on the history of modern and contemporary philosophy. His research ranges from early modern philosophy especially the thought of Descartes and Spinoza to contemporary philosophy and epistemology, on which he has published numerous articles in international journals. He has been a Visiting Scholar at several international research centres, including IRPhiL (Universite Lyon III), Birkbeck College (London), Princeton University and Utrecht University. He is the author of I diagrammi della filosofia. Una storia eretica della filosofia contemporanea in Francia (Mucchi, 2024); Contre Spinoza. Critique, systeme et metamorphoses au siecle des Lumieres (Georg, 2021); Hermeneutics and Conflict. Spinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical Interpretation (Brill, 2021); Dispersione, ordine, distanza. L'Illuminismo di Foucault, Luhmann, Blumenberg (Quodlibet, 2020); con P. Schiavo [eds], Ragione e mito. Hans Blumenberg e la costituzione della razionalit moderna (Mucchi, 2018). Brent Waterhouse received his PhD in Musicology from University of Bologna/Paris IV Sorbonne. He is the translator of Luca Bragalini, From La Scala to Harlem. Duke Ellington's Symphonic Dreams, Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming), Monica Massari and Vittorio Martone (ed.), Mafia Violence. Political, Symbolic and Economic Forms of Violence in Camorra Clans, NY: Routledge, 2019, Monia Cappuccini, Austerity and Democracy in Athens. Crisis and Community in Exarchia, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. He is the author of References la musique et au sonore dans l'uvre de Deleuze, in Pascale Criton, Jean-Marc Chouvel (ed.) Gilles Deleuze. La Pensee-musique, Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine: Paris 2015 and Tracce di una cultura musicale ne Le Grand Voyage du Pays des Hurons di Gabriel Theodat Sagard, in Paola Dessi (ed.), Per una storia dei popoli senza note: atti dell'Atelier del Dottorato di ricerca in musicologia e beni musicali (F. A. Gallo): Ravenna, 15-17 October 2007, Bologna: Clueb, 2010.