International audienceWe here analyze in detail the reading of Spinoza Kant proposes in The Critique of the Power of Judgement, and notably the liaison established by Kant, with regards to Spinoza, between the “idealism of finality” and “pantheism”. We demonstrate the profound pertinence of Kant’s reading: the idealism of finality, that is to say the absence of real finality in Nature, adamantly maintained by Spinoza in the Appendix to the First Part of the Ethics, clears the path to an “absurd” version of Spinozism, quite present in Spinoza’s texts, according to which the world’s order is but an illusion. However, Kant argues that there does exist, in Spinoza’s philosophy, a form of the doctrine of finalities, since Kant considers this phi...