Abstract
This chapter considers the concept of the multitude through Husserl's concept of intersubjectivity, which he presents in his Cartesian Meditations. The constitution of transcendental intersubjectivity requires the concept of the monad as a unifying mirror of a world-environment and the concept of a monadic community as a reciprocity of their mirrorings, a synchrony of the worlds. The chapter conceives the temporality of the multitude, through the attempt to read a sort of Spinoza/Leibniz alternative in the history of thought, exemplified by the two theoretical models of intersubjectivity and transindividuality. To appreciate the Spinozist concept of multitude in all its radicality, what is required is a concept of temporality that is completely different from temporal co-existence. The chapter discovers that the essential terms of Spinozist ontology, substance and modes, can be expressed entirely in temporal terms: the temporality of the substance is eternity, while the temporality of the mode is duration.Keywords: Leibniz alternative; monadic community; multitude; Spinoza alternative; Spinozist modes; Spinozist ontology; Spinozist subatance; transcendental intersubjectivity; transindividuality
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