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Vittorio Morfino
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 materialism.
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In this original and insightful new take on Spinoza, Morfino convincingly argues that materialist philosophers must base themselves on Althusser.
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Jacques Lezra
On the Nature of Marx’s Things traces to Marx’s earliest writings a Lucretian practice that Lezra calls necrophilological translation.
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This volume studies the ‘subterranean currents’ of plural temporalities that have traversed the development of the Marxist tradition. Chapters on Rousseau, Sieyes, Marx, Bloch, Althusser, Gramsci, Pasolini and Postcolonialism highlight…
This volume seeks to provide new resources for understanding the specificity of historical time by studying the articulation of the real, plural temporalities of mass political action.
Vittorio Morfino (University of California Riverside)
This book recounts Spinoza’s encounter with Machiavelli via his remaining material traces, the analysis of his library from its major political texts through to the metaphysical construct.
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 relationship…
The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy and Language offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary…
