urplus -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Context -- Postmodern "Neo-Spinozism" -- Scientific "Neo-Spinozism" and Hegel -- After the Context -- Consensual, Evolutionist "Modern Spinozism" -- Part I. Secular Causality and Its Enjoyment -- From the First Cause to Transference -- Causes or Reasons? -- Secular Ontology: Differential (Non-)Substanceand the End of (Anti-)Platonism -- Wherein Consists the Break of Secular Modernity? -- History of Differential (Non-)Substance -- Ethics of Differential (Non-)Substance -- From Libido to Enjoyment -- A History of God in Secular Reason(From Philosophy to Non-Anti-Philosophy) -- God in (or out of?) Cultural Studies -- The Break of Extimacy -- (Burning with) Enjoyment -- God, Nobody, or Mr. Nobody? -- Part II. Kant with Marx: Surplus, Or, Gaze -- Commodity Fetishism:Toward an Epistemo-/Ontology of Surplus -- The Rule of Representation and Sex(From Kant's Rule of Reason to Marx's Rule of Exchange-Value) -- Set Theory and Being(Marx's Materialist Metaphysics) -- From Absolute Knowledge to the Gaze -- Is It Possible Not to Hate Representation?(Another Look at Empire) -- Conclusion: Another Look at Ethics, or, Commodity and the Gaze -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Conclusion. Raising a Question.