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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463556503321

Autore

Morfino Vittorio <1966->

Titolo

Plural temporality : Transindividuality and the Aleatory between Spinoza and Althusser / / by Vittorio Morfino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

90-04-27055-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (203 p.)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 69

Disciplina

199/.492

Soggetti

Materialism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 Causa Sui or Wechselwirkung: Engels between Hegel and Spinoza -- 2 Spinoza: An Ontology of Relation? -- 3 ‘The World by Chance’: On Lucretius and Spinoza -- 4 The Primacy of the Encounter over Form -- 5 The Syntax of Violence between Hegel and Marx -- 6 The Many Times of the Multitude -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

Plural Temporality traces out a dynamic historical relationship between the texts of Spinoza and Althusser. It interrogates Spinoza’s thought through Althusser's and vice versa, with the intention of opening new horizons for the question of materialism. From the fragmentary intuitions Althusser produced about Spinoza throughout his life, Morfino builds a new and comprehensive interpretation of Spinoza’s philosophy. In the later sections of the book, this interpretation is put to work to help to clarify some of the more problematic aspects of the late Althusser’s philosophy, thereby offering new concepts for a materialist position in philosophy and the development of Marxist theory.