2023 is a year that keeps on giving … Right after the publication of a Symposium on my book, I now have the pleasure to announce a special issue on intersubjective readings of Spinoza, published in the Journal of Spinoza Studies – open access – in the good company of a discussion between Sanem Soyarslan and Steven Nadler. The special issue comprises most of the contributions to a greatly inspiring Werkstattgespräch on Socializing Minds,* kindly organised by Andrea Blättler and Ivo Eichhorn at the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. I am enormously grateful to everyone involved in the Werkstattgespräch and the special issue. Here is a list of the contributions in the order of my replies:

Martin Lenz, General Introduction

Daniel Bella, Agreement or Contrariety? A Dialogue

Lorina Buhr, Contrariety and Complementarity: Reading Spinoza’s Intersubjective Holism of Ideas with Aristotle’s Two Accounts of Motion

Andrea Blättler, Socializing Minds, Socializing Bodies: Implications of a View to the Bodily Side of Lenz’s Spinozist Theory of Mind

Ivo Eichhorn, From Thinking as Property to Thinking in Common: A Note on the Vocabulary of Appropriation in Martin Lenz’ “Socializing Minds”

Martin Lenz, Reply to Comments

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* Here is the original announcement of the workshop: