Plural Temporality traces out a dynamic historical relationship between the texts of Spinoza and of Althusser. It interrogates Spinoza’s text through Althusser and vice versa regarding the question of
Plural Temporalities is an ambitious attempt to understand Spinoza’s thought through Althusser’s insights, and in the process to better interrogate Althusser’s own philosophy. Drawing on the fragmenta
On the Nature of Marx’s Things traces to Marx’s earliest writings on the Epicurean tradition a subterranean, Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation. “Translation” here is ex
On the Nature of Marx’s Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. L
This volume studies the ‘subterranean currents’ of plural temporalities that have traversed the development of the Marxist tradition. Chapters on Rousseau, Sieyès, Marx, Bloch, Althusser, Gramsci, Pas
Can the Marxist tradition still provide new resources for understanding the specificity of historical time? This volume proposes to transform our understanding of Marxism by reconnecting with the "sub
Vittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza--Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relat
Machiavelli beyond Republicanism: Politics, Philosophy, and Language offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront