Dieu est un Homard. La genèse de Dieu dans l’Éthique selon Gueroult et Deleuze

This paper present Martial Gueroult and Gilles Deleuze’s readings of the first eleven propositions of Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics and so their conceptions of God’s genesis by the articulation of a plurality of substances and their integration in the ens realissimum. After having dealt with Gueroult’s theory of substance of a single attribute, we stress the importance of the real distinction as key to the consistency of spinozist definition of God as ens realissimum, but also to its assimilation to a formal distinction by Deleuze as guarantor of the claim “pluralism = monism”. Then, we show that this approach is essential for a proper understanding of the nature of the attributes. Finally, we emphasize that those fundamentals aspects of Spinoza’s metaphysics remains centrals in Deleuze and Guattari’s metaphysic through their affirmation “God is a lobster” and their resumption of Riemann geometry.