Susan James is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College London. Her main areas of interest are early modern philosophy, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of art. Her publications include Passion and Action: The Emotions in Early-Modern Philosophy (Oxford, 1997), Spinoza on Philosophy Religion and Politics: The Theological-Political Treatise (Oxford, 2012); and Spinoza on Learning to Live Together (Oxford,
2020).